Recently, Mat Bao received a lot of consulting requests from customers on email security. One of those cases is related to the problem of email accounts being taken over. And they were all used the same trick, which is to be blackmailed by fake emails. Through the following warning information, Eye of the storm I hope people can be more careful.
The content of the e-mail spoofed extortion
The tricks of the crooks
Currently, the form of email attacks is increasingly sophisticated. Many businesses do not use safety measures, causing great damage to property.
The content of these emails will usually be to notify the user that the hacker has placed a virus on the device. As well as threatening to have all the personal information of users. They can fabricate that it is sensitive images, important data, browsing history, personal information of the user to create panic.
The following is the form of blackmail email that is spreading widely and hitting the user's psychology the most.
If you are observant, you can see that this is content that has been Vietnameseized by Google translate. Attacking the psychology of users with the sole purpose: blackmail. Requiring users to transfer money via a cryptocurrency (bitcoin) address or else will publish personal information on social networking sites.
Fake email content
From there we can derive the general content of the blackmail emails as follows:
- Notice email account password has been revealed
- Notice that you have access to and installed Viruses and trojans on users' computers and devices
- Notice that there are sensitive data, photos, videos, bad website access history.
- Ask the user to transfer a certain amount of currency
- Provide Bitcoin address for users to transfer
- Threaten if not transfer money will publish personal information.
When receiving these types of emails, users need to stay calm. Now your email has not been invaded by hackers. If the Email is sent with the display of the Email address name, it is because the hacker uses a editing tool to fake the sender's Email address as the recipient's address.
Methods to prevent Blackmail Spoofing Emails
As for the prevention plan, you just need to ignore and delete these fake emails. Besides, it is necessary to contact the IT department or email service provider for support. From there, it is possible to suppress and handle the source of fake mail.
However, if you are not sure, strengthen the security of your account. You need to do the following:
- Change your password periodically: Password should be more than 8 characters, including uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
- Check your email Forwarding settings and remove suspicious forwarding addresses from your mailbox.
- Install anti-virus software and scan it periodically to prevent hackers from installing malicious software on your computer.
- Always verify information with partners or customers with letters requesting currency transfers. To avoid transferring the wrong account of hackers.
- Do not click on links from unknown emails or attachments. Do not run compressed files containing executable files such as .exe, .dec, .bat, ...
- Do not access strange links attached in Email.
- Double check the website link is reliable or not when logging into your email account.
Please note that you only need to re-login the email when it is intended to be used. Email service providers will not ask for login information to authenticate, increase storage, avoid account lockout, etc.
Conclude
To ensure the safety of individuals and businesses, arm yourself with knowledge about technology crime at Mat Bao. As well as using support tools to keep your business mailbox secure. Please continue to refer to our articles to update useful information. For a civilized & healthy Internet-using world.
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Source: Eye of Storm synthetic
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