Protecting Your Business

Cybercrime

The increasing digitisation of industry plays a vital role in business growth. But it also brings risk.

Cybercrime targets victims from private individuals to large corporates, through various forms of phishing and illicit installations of malware. The results are lost income, reputational damage, financial loss and ransomed data.

While the majority of criminals have quite basic technical capabilities, attacks are increasingly enabled by sophisticated tools available in the online criminal marketplace. With some criminal groups even industrialising their activities, cybercrime is evolving and growing fast.

'Ransomware' attacks have grown, leveraging threats to publish data online, or block its use. Targeted fraud is a rising cost for individuals and businesses.

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One of the most common cyber-attacks, phishing operates through emails which are often convincing and appear to come from legitimate senders. These messages entice their targets to click on links or attachments which, in turn, facilitate theft or fraud.

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Business Email Compromise

With criminals constantly devising new ways to steal information and money, one of the newest emerging threats is Business Email Compromise, also known as CEO or Chairman Fraud.

Malware

One of the most common cyber-attacks, phishing operates through emails which are often convincing and appear to come from legitimate senders.

Phishing

Phishing phone calls ('vishing') and scam texts ('smishing') are common attacks, designed to trick targets into divulging personal information that can be used for theft or fraud. Both vishing and smishing are cheap, and require little technical knowledge.

Text and phone scams

Texts and phone calls can be used maliciously to facilitate theft and fraud. 'Vishing' calls try to alarm recipients into making payments or providing important financial information. 'Smishing' texts may additionally try to entice their target to click on malicious links, activating trojan viruses which can steal passwords and other high-value data.

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