For email users, ‘tis the season to be worried—here’s what you need to do.
Republished on December 21 with a new cybersecurity report into predicted AI threats for 2025, echoing recent FBI warnings.
What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And MoreThe best advice remains to ignore marketing emails—especially when holiday season research suggests most of these are now either scams, fraud or worse. If you see an offer you like, navigate through to it by accessing the website directly or using a search engine.“Remember that companies generally don’t contact you to ask for your username or password.
Be careful what you download. Never open an email attachment from someone you don’t know and be wary of email attachments forwarded to you.Be careful with what information you share online or on social media. By openly sharing things like pet names, schools you attended, family members, and your birthday, you can give a scammer all the information they need to guess your password or answer your security questions.
Scammers are clever and will come up with a form of words that could be an email address from a genuine business, but it will be complex and will not come from the genuine domain. While it’s possible to mimic even this, it’s usually not done. Most of the mass of phishing attacks can be detected with this simple check. Never treat any email as genuine until you’ve done at least that.addresses making the scam much harder to detect.
Again, echoing the FBI’s own warnings, McAfee also points to AI “giving cybercriminals the ability to easily create more personalized and convincing emails and messages that look like they’re from trusted sources, such as banks, employers, or even family members. They can craft these scams quickly and with precision, making them more difficult to detect and increasing their success rate.
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