Leoni AG, a wire and cable manufacturer victim to hackers lost approximately $44 million. The company fell victim to a couple of well-known exploits in the computer security community, Email spoofing, and social engineering.
You receive an email from an address that looks similar to your own for instance, your email domain is mybusiness.com, what would you do if you received an email from someone at mybusiiness.com similar but not quite the same
The receiver of such an email believes it is from someone in the company and wires the money. Classic. After internal investigations, it was revealed that the culprits knew the company’s practices for wiring money.
Training–train your employees to recognize these tactics by malicious users. Safeguard–prevent and safeguard company assets visiting well-known malicious sites. Email–blocking unwanted and unneeded domains from reaching your servers by using enterprise-grade spam and email filters. I.T. business solutions can analyze, install, configure and mitigate all these security issues. How would such a loss affect your business? Still need help, no problem. Shoot us a quick email at info@itb-solutions.com or give us a call so we can help (954)317-0079.
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