What is INKY?
INKY is a phishing prevention and education tool that uses banners at the top of emails to inform users of the security status for inbound emails and malicious links.
When you receive an email, you can expect to see a banner like the three examples below, depending on the security status.
YELLOW BANNER “CAUTION”:
Indicates that INKY found something unusual about the email message. It is not necessarily phishing or dangerous but something you should be aware of. For example, one of the categories for a message to be marked as unusual is “Sensitive Content”. This may flag emails containing financial information or contain a request for sensitive personal information. Messages with this flag should be given extra scrutiny, but may not necessarily be malicious.
RED BANNER “DANGER”:
This banner indicates that INKY thinks the message is suspicious and likely to be phishing or dangerous in some other way. This includes brand impersonations (e.g., a fake “account alert” email from your IT department), blacklisted phishing URLs, or attempts to spoof mail to look like it came from an internal company account.
The malicious email banner will contain information about why the email has been flagged as such. You can read more about why INKY determined that it was risky by clicking the “Details,” link.
Reporting “Phishy” Emails:
You can actively help by identifying and reporting phishing attempts, so that
INKY learns to flag these in the future, and these cyber criminals can be stopped.
To do this, click on the “Report This Email” link below any INKY banner.
This will take you to the Report this email page which will ask you to choose how you want to classify this email. Click on Safe, Spam or Phishing and hit submit at the bottom.
Oops I clicked on a shady link:
If you click on a link inside a suspicious message INKY will supply you with a screenshot of the webpage of the malicious link, a description of why the link is categorized as malicious and two additional navigation options, 1) Proceed to the site 2) Do not proceed.
