Recently, we’ve seen several victims fall prey to cyber threats like this which employ a combination of a phishing email to gain access to a mailbox and then waiting until the opportune time to hook the prey using a look-a-like domain. Here’s a short video explaining what happened:
Sneaky hackers purchase and set up fraudulent websites that are a close misspelling of legitimate ones.
To avoid falling prey to this combination attack, IT Radix recommends implementing multi-factor authentication on all email accounts, providing security awareness training and email phishing testing for all employees, locking down automated email forwarding and more.