JPMorgan Chase is implementing a digital watermark for emails to protect its customers from phishing attacks:
, which develops standards for the broader initiative and counts Google, Comcast, and LinkedIn among its members.
The tool could primarily help combat phishing attacks, which deploy fraudulent emails that mimic those of a legitimate sender to get consumers to reveal personal data. And as an added security benefit, digital logos created with VMC technology are difficult to forge. The logo may also make it easier for customers to spot JPMorgan Chase's emails in crowded inboxes and boost brand awareness by displaying the bank's logo prominently alongside the VMC.
Phishing is a potent method of attack, and it disproportionately affects financial services companies, possibly because of their reliance on emails for customer communication. Banks and other financial institutions are affected by an estimated 12,000 unique bank phishing email campaigns each month,Furthermore, when phishing sites target institutions to exploit consumers, financial institutions are the most commonly selected category, targeted in 29% of cases in 2018, perfrom PhishLabs.
And beyond customer communications, tools like VMC could also help minimize phishing threats to the internal communications of financial institutions. If JPMorgan uses VMC for messages to employees as well as emails to customers, it could help address"spear phishing" within banks, which involves fraudsters posing as trusted employees to steal money or data from the individual or organization.
However, measures like this VMC only go so far, and need to be paired with consumer and employee education campaigns, given that human behavior and scam awareness
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