How To Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams | Explained
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What are the 3 ways to avoid phishing? What is phishing and how it can be prevented? What are examples of phishing attacks? What is the best protection against phishing? What are anti-phishing tools? All these questions will be answered in this video, stay tuned!
🎣 What is phishing?
To give you a textbook definition, phishing is a social engineering attack, used to steal user data. And what I just described above is known as an Email phishing attack. What is a phishing email then? What are its usual characteristics? First of all things - impersonation of an authoritative figure. A phishing email would capitalise on the authority of the organisation or person asking you to do something. It is often paired with a sense of urgency, forcing its victim to act immediately, often without thinking first. This case with the court is a striking example of that.
By trying to access the link in a phishing email, you will get to a different website, that will look the same, work the same and even might have legitimate security measures and protocols in place. Only minor things, like a difference in the web address can lead you to recognizing a fake. But if you don't succeed at phishing attack prevention and try to login to the fake website, this website will forward your details to the cybercriminals, who are now in control of your personal info.
💬 Which brand is impersonated the most?
Facebook, alongside other social media, is this year’s most impersonated brand. By itself, Facebook phishing contributes 14% of the fake websites used by cybercriminals, which rises to 24% once other platforms join in.
With 2.8 billion users, Facebook is a goldmine for cybercriminals. Fake emails, asking users to change their password, are usually the most popular example of Facebook scams, employed to steal user data. However, criminals can also entice users with messages containing keywords and images associated with major contemporary events. Last year, Coronavirus was one of the most used topics, and right now it is the war in Ukraine.
💥 What is the worst outcome of phishing?
The first thing a criminal would do is request new account PINs and remake your bank cards remotely, using banking details and your Social Security number. They will extract or use all available resources you keep in banks, and that would be just the beginning.
Identity fraud is highly possible, as the information you forfeited can be used to request a new passport, driver licence and more. With those, nothing stops criminals from taking credits from microfinance organisations, racking hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit debt. In a single moment, you can lose all your funds and rack up an insurmountable debt. That’s how phishing works. But that’s the worst case scenario.
💼 Spear phishing - what does it entail?
Target for the spear phishing is researched beforehand, so that the scam message will be specifically crafted for them, impersonating closest friends, family or business clients and partners. Sometimes, the victim would be a part of an organisation, and the attack would include an immense amount of background research to identify the power structure and hierarchy within that company.
Then, out of nowhere a low-ranked clerk gets an email from one of the executives, asking to sign a document and send back a signed copy… With research done right, an employee won’t even notice that this email is sent from a slightly different address and will personally hand the corporate stamp and signature to the cybercriminals.
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00:00 Intro
0:42 What is phishing?
1:55 Most impersonated brands
3:30 The worst consequences of phishing scams
4:40 What is spear phishing?
6:36 How to prevent phishing attacks?
7:47 What to do post-attack?
8:29 Conclusion
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Phishing should be a Capital offense
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Thats if those useless tool sets new how to follow the fake laws they phish with! I hope the cons get a new life so other people can live thiers
Great video, really impressed with the graphics and the edits. Are you able to refer me to who did them ? If it's someone from cybernews, really awesome and congrats would love to know how some of the effects were done as a novice video editor and graphic designer.
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Even though I am aware of phising attacks because I work in IT, this video was very informative.
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My cousin, Vincent, explained a lot about this kind of stuff in an auntie’s house!
I'm not sure if what I'm getting is the exact same as this, but I've been getting emails from Amazon telling me payment to renew my Amazon Prime account is declined because both my cards are expired, but the cards on my account don't expire for a few years. I've checked my account to see if my payment info is correct, and it is.
I have been educating myself on phishing when I came across your site.which are all very educational. The one thing I 'd like to ask is it safe to call their bluff.? I'm not suggesting directly but by quietly deleting it ignoring the deadline never getting back to them. Another thing I learnt from one site. Is it true hackers get into our computers from days of research on us. It takes time to collect information. Armed wIth weeks to moths of studying our social media posts they get back to us with designer phishing posts to reveal our personal data.
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Please I like to know the software you use for video editing please
Lost $3,000. Both the bank and police were useless. Paypal however was very helpful and I got most of that money back.
Oof... At least you got most of it back!
Free gifts after sending a postage fee. Another one is paying back college loans scams.
I have been getting from people trying to send me a business proposal.
You lost me at the point where hypothetically leaking my facebook account details somehow gives the hacker access to my social security and bank account??
This usually happens when people use same (or very similar) password on many different services!
@@cybernewsim so scared and paranoid rn, earlier i got an email and it was a bit sketchy, it said i hadn’t claimed my bonus gift they had sent me 7 days ago and to press the link to their customer portal. I was curious so i pressed the link and the website said confirm im not a robot, i felt a weird feeling and closed the tab and deleted my search history. Then i noticed at the end of the mail it said it was sent by a company (then I remembered this company doesn’t exist anymore because another bought it earlier this year) so i said this is definitely a scam and blocked them and threw it in the bin.
So i googled media markt scam and a swedish (im a swede) newspaper said that a group of ppl located in Bangladesh are operating this scam on swedes.
So my question is, can they have access to my phone now? Can they rob my bank account? Im so paranoid that i will be emptying my savings to cash, and im so scared that they could read this and empty my account before me.
first
I got into a website...
And...
It ask to complete 1 of the 3...
Amazon
Gmail
Paypal
After I clicked those it said it wasn't available in my country.
Am I still safe or not?
That's what they do they often make a fake website designed Like the real website once you enter your personal information you get redirected over to the real website and it says unknown username or password to make you believe that it was just a simple mistake
@@demonking2526 im so scared and paranoid rn, earlier i got an email and it was a bit sketchy, it said i hadn’t claimed my bonus gift they had sent me 7 days ago and to press the link to their customer portal. I was curious so i pressed the link and the website said confirm im not a robot, i felt a weird feeling and closed the tab and deleted my search history. Then i noticed at the end of the mail it said it was sent by a company (then I remembered this company doesn’t exist anymore because another bought it earlier this year) so i said this is definitely a scam and blocked them and threw it in the bin.
So i googled media markt scam and a swedish (im a swede) newspaper said that a group of ppl located in Bangladesh are operating this scam on swedes.
So my question is, can they have access to my phone now? Can they rob my bank account? Im so paranoid that i will be emptying my savings to cash, and im so scared that they could read this and empty my account before me.