Phishing: 03. Email Phishing

Email phishing has been around since the early days of the internet. In the past, email phishing attacks were relatively easy to spot. They typically involved an attacker sending an email pretending to be a bank or other financial institution, asking the recipient to provide their usernames, passwords, account numbers, or other private information. These were usually very generic and often had spelling or grammatical errors. However, over the last 20 years, email phishing has become increasingly sophisticated and much more difficult to detect. In this course, we’ll discuss the various types of email phishing attacks, how to identify them, and what to do if you think you’ve received one.