The document explains email spoofing, a cyber attack where attackers send emails with a forged sender address to steal sensitive information. It outlines the reasons and methods for spoofing, as well as protective measures like implementing SPF and DKIM, employee training, and maintaining consistent branding. The content emphasizes the importance of awareness and preventative tactics to mitigate risks associated with spoofed emails.

1. Email Spoofing: What Is It, and
How to Protect Yourself
Most of the time, spoofed emails could not catch by spam filters and
sent to the inbox.

2. Table of Contents
• What is email spoofing?
• Reasons for email spoofing
• How does email spoofing work?
• How to get protected from email spoofing?
i. Implement SPF
ii. Setup DKIM
iii. Keep your employees aware of the cyber attacks
iv. Consistent branding
• Conclusion

3. What Is Email Spoofing?
• It is a kind of cyber attack
• Receiver receives spoofed email from a threat actor with fake sender
address.
• Cyber attacker uses forged sender address.
• Cyber attackers take advantage of the users’ trust
• Threat actors changes one or “tow” letters to look similar.
• Cyber attacker installs malware in the system to steal the sensitive
details.

4. Reasons for Email Spoofing:
• To steal sensitive data and information
• Attacker uses an anonymous name to take the benefits
• Attacker attacks personal files

5. How Does Email Spoofing Work?
• Attacker acts like a trust worthy person
• SMTPs allow sending emails from one person to another without any
hard and fast rules that enables spoofing.
• Attacker can get access to the users’ mailbox

6. How to Get Protected from Email Spoofing?
• Implement SPF (Sender Policy Framework): SPF checks the email
domain and device IP.
• Setup DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail): This acts like a signature
stamp that attests the details in the “From” section.
• Keep Your Employees Aware of the Cyberattacks: Train your
employees to get protected from the cyberattacks. Hire some
professionals to train them.
• Consistent Branding: Build a specific tone for your brand so that the
recipient instantly recognize this is from you.

7. Click the link below to read the full blog:
• https://school.mumara.com/resources/educational/email-spoofing-
what-is-it-and-how-to-protect-yourself/