Australia’s gate ‘wide open’ for email spoof attacks
Almost all of Australia’s leading businesses and government agencies have their email fraud defences wide open, according to new research.
Almost all of Australia’s leading businesses and government agencies have their email fraud defences wide open, according to new research.
For more than a year, the I Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning businesses to be on the lookout for growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established companies that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.
In a growing climate of cybersecurity attacks, businesses can be shut down for hours if just one employee opens the wrong email attachment. This ever-present risk is forcing companies to take a broader look at their exposure, and in particular the cyber resilience processes they have in place to avoid damaging compromise.