We all get emails from university, or office or websites. These emails usually contain links. These email looked legitimate, perfect logo and company name. But hackers can create these thing easily. They create same logo and company email. They send you malicious links via email to get access of your devices. Before clicking on the link, do that 2 second hover to protect your assets.
Welcome to Tactic Tuesday, where we explore tactics that can protect us from malicious activities on digital world. Today, we will discuss a simple and powerful action that will be beneficial for you.
What is Link Hover?
Before clicking on link in the email, text or social media messages, hover your mouse on the link. It will show the small box on your screen's left bottom corner that contain the actual address that leads you that.
How to Spot a Fake in 2 Seconds
Let's learn how to look that link is malicious or not. here we have the example of PayPal Link. - paypal.com/security-update
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paypa1-security.com
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paypal.security-center.verify-login.com
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ppl-security.org/paypal
what do you think which one is legitimate?
Red Flags to Spot
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Missepllings: paypa1 instead of paypal
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Hyphen Tricks: amazon-security-verify.com
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Subdomain Deception: paypal.othersite.com
Your Action Plan
i) Hover your cursor over the link ii) Inspect the URL that pops up, look to check, is it official? iii) Decide its legitimacy. If it link suspicious, go to website directly and type address yourself.
Why This Tactic
- It is instant
- It is free
- It is effective
Stay Smart, Stay Safe!!!