India, March 20 -- Every year, phishing attacks grow in scale and complexity and are becoming extremely hard to detect. A 2020 Webroot Threat Report highlights that phishing URLs encountered grew by 640 percent in 2019. One in four malicious URLs were found hosted on an otherwise non-malicious domain. The companies or websites we trust are the ones commonly impersonated. These include Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, PayPal and DropBox.

Given the techniques employed by hackers to evade detection, how can enterprises better protect themselves? Based on our experience, we list down five simple ways to avoid phishing attacks

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