Secure Business Email Against Extortion
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Ahead of The Latest Threats
What is Cyber Extortion?
Cyber extortion is an attack that involves threat actors gaining access to your personal or financial data and threatening to cause harm if their ransom demands are not met. Cyber extortion has become increasingly popular among cybercriminals in recent years as more sensitive data is being stored online. The information that cyber thieves compromise and use in an extortion scam is typically valuable or private information that a user or organization would not want to be exposed or destroyed, and attackers capitalize on this fear.
In an email extortion scam, the scammer will send out extortion emails that threaten to expose embarrassing information to the public unless the victim anonymously pays a specified sum of money to the attacker via cryptocurrency.
Common Extortion Methods
Common cyber extortion methods used against organizations include:
Ransomware
This dangerous type of malware works by infecting your network, encrypting your files, and blocking you out. In the case of a ransomware attack, there is a chance that your files can be completely deleted, and there is no guarantee that the files will be restored - even if you pay the ransom demanded by the attacker.
Cyber Blackmail & Sextortion
Cyber blackmail occurs after an attacker infiltrates your network to retrieve Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or sensitive intellectual or client data and threatens to publish the data if you refuse to pay a ransom. Sextortion is a cybercrime in which a victim is blackmailed with threats to share images, videos, or information about the victim unless they pay or engage in more sexual acts. Usually, the perpetrator will threaten to share sexual content with the victim’s family, colleagues, and friends, or upload the content to an online platform. These attacks can cause devastating harm to an organization’s reputation.
Distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS)
This type of attack refers to the use of botnets to flood a website with traffic and overwhelm the server. The use of Ransom DDoS (rDDoS) in cyber extortion is gaining popularity as more businesses drive eCommerce sales and online engagement.
Safeguards Against Extortion Scams with an Intelligent, Multi-Layered Protection
Guardian Digital recognizes that protecting against the array of cyber extortion scams that organizations face requires comprehensive, adaptive email security defenses. We provide the caliber of protection needed to secure against ransomware, DDoS attacks, cyber blackmail, and other types of extortion via our intuitive, all-in-one EnGarde Cloud Email Security solution. EnGarde features defense-in-depth, auto-learn protection equipped to anticipate and block the most advanced threats in real-time, and updates its defenses to provide enhanced protection against future threats. EnGarde features strong email authentication to verify the legitimacy of every email delivered, dynamic URL and file analysis to identify malicious links and attachments leading to compromise, and AI-powered behavioral analysis to detect behavioral anomalies that are characteristic of the most targeted and sophisticated attacks. Guardian Digital anticipates the threats specific to your users, and stops them using a collection of flexible filters that adapt to your environment.
Closes Critical Gaps in Built-In Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace Email Security
Built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email protection is unable to defend against malicious URLs and attachments that are not included in its static URL lists, as well as behavioral anomalies often seen in today’s advanced and targeted attacks. Given the rise in cyber extortion and the severe, lasting repercussions of an attack, implementing additional layers of proactive email protection is critical for all organizations.
Guardian Digital EnGarde Cloud Email Security’s intelligent auto-learn system provides complete protect against phishing and other dangerous attacks which frequently leverage malicious links and attachments, as well stealthy spear phishing and business email compromise (BEC) scams that often use stealthy social engineering tactics to deceive users into sharing sensitive data with adversaries, downloading ransomware, or unknowingly performing other harmful actions against their organization.
Enhances Extortion Protection & Extends IT Resources with Fully-Managed Email
Security Services
Expert ongoing system monitoring, maintenance, and accessible support provide a remote extension of your IT team, improving security, maximizing productivity, simplifying deployment, and easing the load on your IT department. Guardian Digital’s fully-managed EnGarde Cloud Email Security solution equips you with the knowledge and resources required to rapidly and reliably detect the most sophisticated and evasive extortion scams. Our security experts are with you every step of the way, assisting with setup and providing the around-the-clock email vigilance required to identify and block all potential threats to the inbox.
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