An expert weighs in on the FBI's recent phishing scam mitigation advice, praising some aspects while highlighting a concerningly outdated recommendation.
Warning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is wrong, very wrong indeed, about recommended mitigation advice for people who may fall victim to email phishing scams isn’t what I thought I’d be doing today, yet here we are. highlighting three particularly prevalent attack methodologies, and the mitigation advice offered is mainly sound and sensible.
The FBI, however, has also warned of seasonal phishing scams, and some of the mitigation advice is, in the opinion of many security experts, very wrong indeed. Here’s what you need to know against Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail users. The advice offered up by way of mitigation was, for the most part, solid enough. Less so, however, is one piece of advice still being touted by the FBI as somehow relevant as 2024 moves into 2025:. While this is relevant in the context of URLs that use alternative spellings and character sets to try and fool the eye, when it comes to the email itself, I’m afraid that you can no longer rely upon the attackers to make spelling mistakes or be sloppy with their grammatical correctness in whatever language is being used. It is possible this is just poor communication skills on behalf of the FBI itself, of course, and it really means spelling mistakes solely in links. However, that isn’t how it reads to me or, I suspect, to plenty of others—especially those who are the intended target, the non-techie public who are most at risk.Here’s the thing, I’m actually a big fan, if that’s the right word, of FBI public service announcements and warnings as they are usually 100% spot on in terms of alerting the public to security issues and how to mitigate the
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