Preventing Phishing Attacks

Question 1

What is an Anti-Phishing Campaign?

Answer 1

Security awareness training tool that can be used to educate individuals about the risks of phishing and how to best identify potential phishing attempts

Question 2

What are commonly used indicators that are associated with Phishing attacks?

Answer 2

Urgency, Unusual requests, Mismatched URLs, Strange email requests, Poor spelling or grammar

Question 3

What is Urgency?

Answer 3

Phishing emails often create a sense of urgency by prompting the recipient to act immediately

Question 4

What are Unusual Requests?

Answer 4

If you receive an email requesting sensitive information, such as passwords or credit card numbers, you should treat these emails with a lot of suspicion

Question 5

What are Mismatched URLs?

Answer 5

When you are looking at an HTML-based email, the words you are reading are called the display text, but the underlying URL of the weblink could be set to anything you want

Question 6

What are Strange Email Addresses?

Answer 6

If the real email address and the displayed email address don’t match, then the email should be treated as suspicious and possibly part of a phishing campaign

Question 7

What is Poor Spelling or Grammar?

Answer 7

If an email has a lot of “broken English”, poor grammar, or numerous spelling errors, it is likely to be part of a phishing campaign