- Researchers warn about the “Subscription here” button on spam emails
- They can be used to redirect victims to malicious pages
- There are other ways to get rid of spam, so users must be on guard
If you have received a spam email with a “unsubscribe” button at the bottom, you don’t press it, you could do more damage than well.
This is according to TK Keanini, CTO de DNSFilter, who recently revealed to press such a button sends the recipient away from the security of the email client and on the open internet, where potentially malicious destination pages are on the prowl.
In fact, Keanini states that one in 644 clicks can lead to a malicious website.
How to unsubscribe, then?
Even if clicking on the button does not lead directly to a Phishing page, others, more subtle, risks, they are also on the prowl.
Keanini says that computer pirates often placed that button just to see who clicks, which would also help them determine which email addresses are active and, therefore, it is worth noting more.
It seems to be the general rule: if you do not trust the company that sent the email, do not trust the subscription cancellation process.
So what is the alternative? The alternative is to unsubscribe through the email client, instead of the email body.
Most email clients have “undersigned lists”, which appear as incorporated buttons and, therefore, do not include the source code, explained the Tom guide. “If your email header does not contain a link, you can answer in your spam filters or try a blacklist to the sender,” the publication explained.
Those who do not have these options can use disposable email addresses when registered in different services. Most email service providers also allow users to create disposable email addresses. For example, Gmail has a characteristic called “more addressing” or “Alias de Gmail”, which allow users to modify their address adding to + and a label before the direction of @gmail.com.
In this way, the email address used during the record could be its [email protected]. The messages will still arrive in the entrance tray, but they can be easily traced or filtered.
Through Wall Street Journal
