Example Phishing Email - Drive-by Empty Email with subject Time to review your cloud preferences

For the record, this is a Drive-by empty email phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject " Time to review your cloud preferences".

What to do?  Report them, go to bottom of page. 

From: Cloud Alerts<admin7542@browntrack0966.seeacceldata.com> Subject:  Time to review your cloud preferences Blank body for this email. Hover over or accidentally click email leads you to phishing link below.

Phishing Link

1. http://xn--apscrvbrg-95a2o93b.resilienceinnovationhub.com/xxxxxxx

How to tell this is a Phishing email?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it.
3. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

How to examine Email Message Source?

Now let's look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from source domain, like apple.com.

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Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing to Google

If you have received this email, take further action by

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

Report phishing for Web hosting companies (e.g., GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean) and ISPs

1. SpamCop.net - Sign up for SpamCop reporting

Anti‑Phishing Working Group (APWG) — forward to reportphishing@apwg.org

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