GoDaddy has decided that December will be the best time to test whether its employees remain vigilant when it comes to cyber security threats. At a time when its staff is trying to navigate the holiday season created by an epidemic and a sick economy, the web hosting giant sent a phishing email with an offer fur that wasn’t even good to be true and now it’s very sorry.
Arizona-based news outlet The Copper Courier First report That GoDaddy employees received an email on December 14 with the subject line “GoDaddy Holiday Party”. The email informed workers that the company was looking forward to the annual holiday party and would offer a “one-time holiday bonus of $ 650.” The email included two links and instructed employees to select their location and fill out some details on the form to ensure they receive a bonus before the holidays. Unfortunately, the whole offer was a test to see if employees would fall for such a scam if a bad actor tried to redirect them from a malicious link.
Two days later, about 500 GoDaddy employees were informed that no bonus was coming and they failed the corporate phishing test. GoDaddy’s chief security officer Demetrius arrives The follow-up email states that the failed employees will have to undergo “Security Awareness Social Engineering Training.”
Many companies do this type of testing and may be a sign that a misleading email is sent from an email address that appears to be from a corporate account, for example, my boss may try to fish me with an address email ending in iz gizmondo.com . But GoDaddy runs its own email service and the fake phishing email, the address, was sent from an account with Khushhalide @ godaddy.com. It’s easy to see why so many workers failed the test, and why GoDaddy would see such a terrible vulnerability in its systems after the company just faced an embarrassing situation. Data breach Earlier this year.
It is not understandable in the company’s report that when an employee is expected to receive a regular bonus in a year there is cruelty and cruelty involved in the establishment of this test. Record growth While participating No big corporate trend Laying Workers. Cybersecurity is important for a company like GoDaddy but the same test would have been conducted, training could have been ordered to anyone who failed, and bonuses could still have been delivered to everyone.
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“GoDaddy takes the security of our platform very seriously. We understand that some employees were offended by the phishing attempts and felt that they were sensitive, for which we apologize, “a Goddard spokesman told Gijmodo. “While testing is mimicking real efforts in the game today, we need to do better and be more sensitive to our employees.” The company did not respond when Gijmodo asked if he wanted to offer a bonus.
Data breaches can be a huge headache for a web hosting company but if one does not want to work there and does not want to do business with an organization that treats its employees like dirt at the most difficult moment in a difficult year Nothing.
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