{"id":82537,"date":"2022-04-22T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/?p=82537"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:21:15","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-against-new-types-of-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/how-to-protect-yourself-against-new-types-of-online-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your business against new types of online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With 379 milion financial losses reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) last year<\/a>, 2021 reached an all-time high for all types of fraud, seeing a 130% increase over the previous year. And the CAFC estimates that only 5% of fraud is reported! We discuss cyber fraud with Emeline Manson, a fraud prevention and cybersecurity trainer and author of YouTube vignettes on the subject<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isarta News: In talking with various entrepreneurs, it seems that “president fraud” (using people in positions of responsibility to circumvent a company’s security) is becoming more sophisticated and difficult to perceive. Are you seeing this same phenomenon on your end?
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Emeline Manson: I totally agree! President fraud is much more frequent and sophisticated than in the past. There are now applications like Anonymouse that can fake a colleague’s address when sending an email. This can be very confusing: it looks like the email is coming from a colleague, when in fact his or her email box has not been compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do hackers manage to personalize their attacks?<\/strong>
E. M.: The Internet is like a big online puzzle. Just think about the information on LinkedIn: it’s a walking organizational chart, you can find the president of a company, the VP, the accountant, the people in finance, etc. It makes life so much easier for criminals. Secondly, hackers have access to translation tools that are very powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What types of fraudulent messages can we expect to receive in our email box?<\/strong>
E. M.: There are many. Right now, there are a lot of emails that replicate cloud-based document sharing notifications, such as “This person wants to share a document with you,” with an email like OneDrive, SharePoint or Google Drive. This is something that is becoming more and more common, with the growing use of collaborative tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another ploy is to send a fake resume – which is clever, in the middle of a labour shortage (!). It looks like an attachment, but when you open it, it turns out to be an executable file and you end up with ransomware, a virus or a Trojan horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, another common fraud is to ask an employee to buy gift cards for everyone, for an upcoming event, be it Christmas, Valentine’s Day or others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides email fraud, are there other types of cyber frauds to be wary of?<\/strong>
E. M.: Social media is another important vector for phishing campaigns. A common scam on Facebook is the “look who’s dead” message inviting us to click on a link external to the platform. Just this morning, a client called me in a panic because she had clicked on this link and didn’t know what to do. I helped her secure her account, change her password, and notify the people (200-300 friends) her account had forwarded this message to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Instagram, scammers offer to help users get the blue account certification badge. However, once they gain access to the account, they take control of it and kick the owner out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing to watch out for is tech support fraud. Recently, a client of mine was caught in this type of fraud. Having problems with her printer, she did a Google search for technical support. She clicked on an ad that was a fraudulent website. The hacker scanned her computer, got access to her passwords and, on top of that, she paid for the service with her credit card!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What advice can you give to avoid cyber fraud?<\/strong>
E. M.: It is very difficult today to tell if a link is fraudulent or not. There is a false belief that HTTPS [Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure] is always secure, when it is not. So basically, the first piece of advice I give is to never click on links that you receive by email, text message or on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s best to go through another communication channel to validate requests, whether it’s through Teams, LinkedIn or even the phone. In short, always take a step back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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