
How to identify and prevent phishing email
Well in the last few days, some people reported that they got an email from a CEO company, saying that the CEO wants to talk to him (perhaps to discuss a secret project? lol :-p). see the email below.
phishing email from a CEO
This email is suspicious, because:
He never had any contact with the CEO beforeThe email goes into the spam folderToo good to be true?
I had this experience before, and asked him to check the reply-to section of the email. And tadaa... it turns out that the "reply-to" address is different than the "from" email address. Well, without further due, we just reported SPAM email.
reply-to email address
HOW phishing email happens?
Phising email diagram
A phishing email attack is not new. Its been there since many years ago. This attack happens by exploiting the flaw in email protocol (SMTP - simple mail transport protocol). The SMTP protocol does not require to have a strict checking on the sender. Meaning, when you send an...