Pest Control HoneypotThis is a new service we have been working on whereby email addresses and URLs (that are witnessed to be in use by spammers) are being blocked by our team for all customer accounts in ‘global’ fashion.We are already seeing customers...
v1 – 8/19/21 – support@avaren.com Summary Background How spam filtering typically works A Note on Phishing Emails Unsubscribing Microsoft Teams Identifying Your Spam Filter Provider Blocking Mail in a Spam Filter Proactive Whitelisting Policy...
ARTICLE BY CALYPTIX SECURITYRansomware attacks used to have a broad scale. Think of the massive WannaCry attack that infected 200,000 machines in 150 countries over a handful of days in 2017. Today, ransomware is much more targeted – and losses from the attacks have...
A interesting phony email made it past the spam filter today. This one portended to be a waiting voicemail message. As you can see in the image below, all one supposedly needs to do to listen to voicemail is to click on the included link. Of course this is not...
I received an interesting “phishing” e-mail today that at first glance appeared to be a notice from Wells Fargo. It only took a few seconds however to determine that it was not a legitimate email. If not already aware, so called “Phishing”...
What is a “Sextortion” Email Scam? “Sextortion” email scams are a form of “social engineering” designed to trick or entice a user into: clicking on a link, installing mal-ware, paying a ransom, or other behavior (that a victim would...
