Economic security/ Suggestions
for protection
On January 22, 2015,
the Internet Crime Complaint Center administered by the FBI said that from
October 2013 to December 2014 over 2,126 firms in 43 countries were victims of
fake scam invoices causing $214 million in losses. Attackers used three forms
of attacks. They either sent a fraudulent payment requests over email,
compromised emails of executives sending wire transfer requests or hacked email
accounts to send out fake invoices to supplier. Most of the payments were sent
to banks in China and Hong Kong. Hackers exploited victims that used web-based
clients lacking more complex security verifications systems.
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