Mailbombing: a type of security threat to your email inbox

Mailbombing can threaten the security of your email inbox and disrupt the proper flow of your emails.

What’s the mailbombing?

Mailbombing is a form of cyber attack aimed at overwhelming your email inbox with an enormous volume of unwanted messages. 
Mailbombing aims to render your mailbox unusable, risking the loss of important messages and a breach of privacy.
Cybercriminals automated scripts or botnets to flood your email inbox by subscribing your address to online services or newsletters.

The dangers of Mailbombing

1. Overloaded Inbox: Email list bombardment floods your inbox with subscription confirmation emails..
   This deluge can make accessing legitimate messages nearly impossible, causing significant disruptions to your daily routine and productivity.
2. Privacy Invasion: Some confirmation emails may contain personal information or link to unintended online services.
   This poses a significant privacy risk, as your data could be shared with third parties without your consent.
3. Resource Consumption: Email list bombardment consumes valuable server resources, leading to increased operating costs for email service providers.
   This can result in slower email performance and potentially higher costs for users.

How to protect your business from mailbombing?

As a mailbombing target, you may lack full control, but you can still take precautions to defend and ensure your communications:

• Advanced antispam filter: Ensure you use an advanced antispam filter that can proactively recognize and block potential mailbombing.
• Reception limits: Set reception limits for your email inbox to avoid receiving an excessive number of messages in a short period.
• Identity verification: Maintain high security with two-factor authentication and ensure that only authenticated senders can deliver messages to your mailbox.
• Continuous monitoring: Regularly monitor the activity of your mailbox and look for signs of suspicious activity or excessive message volumes.
• Create email rules: Identify repetitive phrases like “Confirm your subscription” to automatically manage emails in your client..
• Monitor security-related emails: By monitoring account activities, you will keep an eye on any emails related to password changes or unauthorized access to your mailbox. Messages requesting new mail settings could indicate a security breach.
• Unsubscribe and/or change passwords: Review and unsubscribe from unnecessary email lists. Identify the ones you want to keep and remove yourself from uninteresting newsletters.

Mailbombing can disrupt your email communication and compromise your privacy.

Following the recommendations outlined in this article, you can actively protect your business from mailbombing and other email communication-based threats.

Also, remember that user awareness and training are key elements in significantly strengthening preventive measures.
Maintaining constant vigilance, staying informed about security best practices, and updating them with advanced technological solutions if necessary are crucial to ensuring comprehensive data protection.

With the Email Security Solution, you can rely on an integrated system that ensures maximum security for your business communications and is included in the service.
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