The Psychology of Phishing 128
An anonymous reader writes Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today. Cybercriminals understand that we are a generation of clickers and they use this to their advantage. They will take the time to create sophisticated phishing emails because they understand that today users can tell-apart spam annoyances from useful email, however they still find it difficult identifying phishing emails, particularly when they are tailored to suit each recipient individually. Fake emails are so convincing and compelling that they fool 10% of recipients into clicking on the malicious link. To put that into context a legitimate marketing department at a FTSE 100 company typically expects less than a 2% click rate on their advertising campaigns. So, how are the cybercriminals out-marketing the marketing experts?
If your English sucketh, your link prolly doeth 2 (Score:5, Funny)
>> can tell-apart
You can't fool me...I'm not going to click any links on this craptacular "story."
Re:Fake emails are so convincing.... (Score:4, Funny)
Do you have some kind of confusion that prevents you from distinguishing phone calls from e-mails?
He has trouble relating to Phemails
Re:well (Score:4, Funny)
At the DOD site I worked at, it was a weekly training memo from our security team on the latest threats. Phishing was always a topic. People had to read the briefings or they could be terminated.
Click link below for weekly training memo about latest phishing threats. Remember failure to reading could result in the termination.
- IT Team