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E-mail compromise still accounts for around 90% of breaches that occur within business on a daily basis, says Gideon Viljoen, pre-sales specialist: ICT security at Datacentrix.
A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from US$299.77 to US$1.4 million overnight. From the outside, it looked like Moe and Kateryna Abourched had won the lottery. But this big payday didn’t come from lucky numbers. Rather, a public school district in Michigan was tricked into wiring its monthly health insurance payment to the bank account of a California nail salon the Abourcheds owned, according to a search warrant application filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court. The district — and taxpayers — fell victim to an online sca...
SHARE MORRISVILLE, N.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Internet Crime Report shows a record number of cyber crime complaints in 2020. What You Need To Know $4.1 billion were lost to cyber crimes in 2020 Cyber crime complaints have continued to increase for at least the past five years Cyber security jobs are projected to increase over the next decade According to the report, last year's complaints from the American public increased 69% when compared to 2019. The complaints total 791, 790 with losses of over $4.1 billion. "Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) schemes continued to...