Sentences with phrase «malicious email attachment»

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The intrusion likely resulted, as many cyber breaches do, from an employee clicking on a malicious link or attachment in a so - called phishing email.

Employees of several pipeline companies have been targets of spear - phishing attacks — efforts to lure them to click on email attachments containing malicious code.

These are well crafted emails that look legitimate and are crafted to make the victim open the malicious attachment.

«Phishing emails aim to look like normal emails in order to get you to click on a malicious link or attachment, so make sure any emails you open are coming from a familiar source or a real email address.»

Malware can proliferate in many ways, for example via email attachments, social media, malicious websites or removable media such as USB flash drives.

It also means being smart about online services like malicious attachments in emails and recognizing when a helpful caller is actually a hacker using social engineering techniques.

These scams will often originate by email and may take a number of forms, including offering money, bequests under a will, threatening legal action if the victim does not respond, malicious attachments made to look innocuous such as an industry update, requests for password or bank account details and links to helpful or relevant websites.

Exploitation is trivial, as an attacker can host the malicious code inside JavaScript files served over a website the victim is accessing, add the malicious code to email file attachments, or send a boobytrapped file to a victim via an instant messaging client.

Malware updates and scans must often be manually initiated, and there is seldom any protection against malicious websites or email attachments.

Often delivered via a malicious attachment or link in a phishing email, ransomware encrypts the infected system, locking the user out until they pay a ransom — delivered in bitcoin or other cryptocurrency in order to get them back.

«The group uses social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails with malicious attachments - for example Word documents with embedded exploits - to target employees in financial institutions of interest,» says Sergey Golovanov, a principal security researcher at Moscow - based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

js file attachments, as malicious emails often attach various rigged file attachments in these formats to trick users into giving up their credentials.

Malicious attachments were found in 1.8 % of all emails,...

Over one - third of all security incidents start with phishing emails or malicious attachments sent to company employees, according to...

The program scans email attachments and blocks known malicious websites.

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Most ransomware infects a computer or mobile device in «Trojan horse» fashion — infection is secretly triggered when you open an unexpected email attachment, visit a malicious website or install infected software downloaded from the Internet.