Security News > 2021 > October > Cybersecurity awareness month: Fight the phish!

It's the second week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, and this week's theme is an alliterative reminder: Fight the Phish!

Anti-phishing advice often seems to fall on deaf ears, because phishing is an old cybercrime trick, and lots of people seem to think it's what computer scientists or mathematical analysts call a solved game.

If phishing is a "Solved game", surely it's not worth worrying about any more?

Simply put, the phishing "Game" only has two moves: the scammers always play first, trying to trick you, and you always get to play second, after they've sent out their fake message.

Phishing isn't a "Solved game" after all, and phishing scams are still the main way that crooks get their first toe over the threshold in online cyberincidents such as ransomware attacks.

We've listed the email topics that catch out people the most when you train them using the Sophos Phish Threat toolkit, and it's often the friendliest messages that trick the most people.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/10/11/becybersmart-2021-week2/