To be effective in phishing attack, most hackers impersonate popular brands. Atlas VPN HornetSecurity determines which companies are most targeted by the company.
Hackers play e-commerce company Amazon in 17.7% of cases, followed by logistics company DHL (16.5%) and then electronic signature company DocuSign. (12.7%). Other big names in technology such as PayPal (5.7%), LinkedIn (3.5%) or Microsoft (3%) and Facebook (2.2%) are also in the top 10.
How to Avoid a Phishing Attack?
You may hear some hints like possible spelling or grammatical errors. Also check the shipping address, which often varies by a few letters, and avoid clicking on the URLs, especially when asked to provide sensitive information or fees. Links are also dangerous, do not download zip, exe, scr files that can download viruses directly to your computer.
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