Protect Yourself from Phishing – Understanding the Dangers and Risks

Phishing

Also called phishing, phishing is to get sensitive information to an individual. To do this, the cybercriminal contacts the victim by email or SMS pretending to be a trusted third party, such as a colleague, manager, friend, etc.

Concrete case: In 2021, the leader groupspecialized in temporary work and recruitment, suffered an attack following phishing of one of its employees. The hackers were able to penetrate the ETI information system. Data ended up encrypted and even deleted in the middle of the pay period for 13,000 temporary workers, seriously threatening the company’s activity.