(ANSA) – MILAN, NOV 22 – The computer security company Yoroi has identified a set of data relating to executives of Italian companies in the banking and insurance sectors sold online, on the dark web. The database would contain both the telephone numbers and the email addresses of the victims, a total of almost 4,000 contacts, between domestic and foreign. According to analysts, the risk is that such information could fuel specific fraud campaigns, known as “ceo-fraud”. In these, the criminals manage to impersonate the high offices, sending emails to employees, collaborators and customers and trying to open infected documents or click on fake sites, so as to violate, through computer viruses, even their devices and fuel an escalation of wide scope. The phenomenon of email scams is on the rise and, according to the latest FBI findings, caused damages equal to 1.8 billion dollars in the course of 2020. A figure higher than the proceeds of ransomware-based ransomware. “It is useful to remember that Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams are a form of e-mail fraud in which the cyber-criminal” disguises himself “as a manager or employee to induce the recipient to respond to an unexpected request, such as for example, the transfer of money to an account other than the usual one by leveraging the authority of the alleged sender of the email and the urgency of the action “explains Yoroi. “Generally these requests appear credible as they are enriched with details relating to the recipient’s function and knowledge of company dynamics, but are characterized by reaching the end of the working day or close to the weekend, when employees are tired and in a hurry to close the weekly activities “. (HANDLE).
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