MetaCert Now Protects You From US and British Government Phishing Scams
I’ve taken the text below from the Anomali website — you can find their entire article about Government related phishing scams here. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how MetaCert now makes it virtually impossible for anyone to fall for a phishing scam that either targets Government employees, or the general public when filing taxes online — or when accessing any Government website for that matter.
In late February 2019, Anomali Labs researchers discovered a malicious server hosting two separate phishing campaigns targeting government contractors desiring to do business with two U.S. federal government agencies. In both instances, the phisher created faux landing pages mimicking the Department of Transportation eProcurement login portal and the Department of Labor home page to lure federal contractors into sending their personally identifiable information (PII) to the threat actor. Upon discovery, Anomali Labs submitted the fraudulent sites for blacklisting consideration with Google Safe Browsing and Microsoft Windows Defender Security Intelligence.
Trying to fight phishing scams with traditional methods is like playing a game of whack-a-mole
Unfortunately, it’s impossible for any cyber security company to detect every new threat. All the AI and machine-learning technology in the world still won’t make it possible to detect every threat. And trying to take down every new phishing site is like playing whack-a-mole.
I’ve spoken to companies that use as many as 5 (FIVE) email and network-based filtering systems and phishing remains a serious problem for them. 😓
MetaCert customers who install our software, find it virtually impossible to fall for a phishing scam. Whether links are opened inside a cloud service, email, Skype, Facebook, Slack or any other channel, you are fully protected by MetaCert.
For Government Employees
Government agencies can use the MetaCert Verify service to classify their corporate, partner and supplier domains. By displaying the Green Shield for their whitelisted domains, every employee benefits from immediate protection with no need for a software update.
No more time consuming training videos
MetaCert is so easy to use, it reduces anti-phishing awareness training from hours of training videos to; “do not trust links unless you see the Green Shield”.
For consumers
By installing MetaCert, it will be almost impossible to fall for a phishing scam related to a Government website. We have classified over 4,500 domains for the US Government, and more than 2,000 for the UK Government. With more on the way for other countries.
No more second guessing yourself when opening a link or signing into a website. Just look for the new shield of trust and make sure it’s green. 😇
It takes just 30 seconds to install and 30 seconds to learn how to use it.
