How to prevent phishing attacks

1.   What is a phishing attack?

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack, is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as username, password etc by disguising as Pundi X in an electronic communication. Users are often be deceived by trusted parties such as:

• Email spoofing；
• Fake Pundi X site；
• instant message with malicious link；
• social websites with manipulated Pundi X link;
• Chat with impersonated Pundi X support；
• Fake Pundi X hotline or support in search engine etc.
• Social Media Fake Account
• Malware downloaded from internet
• Free WIFI Phishing

2.   Phishing attack protection

It is known that the most important and weakest aspect in a security system is people .Hence, For users, vigilance is key:

• A spoofed message often contains subtle mistakes such as spelling mistake, strange syntax, unsmooth words, misspelled domain name.
• In addition, attackers will usually try push users into action by creating a sense of ungency. For example, an email could threaten account expiration and shall be verified within a timeline; A message instructed users to move asset a secure wallet to avoid loss as soon as possible.
• Beware of spam/phishing emails, links and websites. Pundi X will not ask you to send coins to addresses/exchanges that are not announced via official news channels.