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SB161 Reports a suspected phishing email
Reporting phishing emails notifies IT or security teams that employees are being targeted by cyber attackers. Employees who report phishing emails reduce organisation's information security risk by ensuring that appropriately trained people can take steps to minimise the harm the potential cybercriminals can do.
Why is it important?
Reporting a suspected phishing email reduces the risk of you and everyone around you falling for a phishing attack.
Priority Tier
Behaviours in SebDB are ranked by their impact on risk. Tier 1 behaviours have the biggest impact, Tier 4 behaviours the least.
Risk Mitigated
Data Theft
Data theft is the intentional stealing of data.
Data Leak
A data leak is when data is accidentally or intentionally disclosed to unauthorised people.
Account Compromise
Account compromise happens when unauthorised people access them.
Further reading
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.563060/full
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams/report-scam-email
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-recognize-and-avoid-phishing-scams