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Think you've been hacked?
What to do if your business is under cyberattack.
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(but maybe not cybersecurity)
Once you've taken these basic steps, call a cybersecurity expert to help you recover your data and prevent new attacks. The team at NOC is standing by and ready to take your call.
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Email Fraud: How to keep hackers from hijacking your inbox
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“Several years ago, our business regarded cybersecurity the same as many other growing businesses — probably important, but not a top priority. We had taken some preliminary steps to protect ourselves but did not consider hacking a serious threat to the well-being of our company. We thought what we had done enough—until we ourselves were attacked through a business email compromise scheme. The lesson was a painful one, with a significant financial cost.
Upon discovering the theft, we immediately reached out to Jon at NOC Technology. Working together with NOC, we have greatly improved the cybersecurity capacity of our company and employees through enhanced protective measures, more robust policies and procedures, and awareness training. The investment has paid off. While NOC filters out the vast majority of dangerous emails, our ongoing training recently helped us to identify and prevent yet another spear-phishing attempt."
—Stacey S.
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It's true in sports and it's true in business cybersecurity.
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Common email scams and hacks
See through suspicious emails.
Here are some of the most common tactics hackers use to invade your email.
Email forwarders
Hackers only have to gain access to your email once and activate an email forwarder. Then, without your knowledge, all incoming email is forwarded to them. They begin spotting significant patterns, such as invoices being sent to you on a regular basis. From there, they can play a long game, gathering information and building up a profile until an opportunity presents itself to steal some money.
Spoofed emails
Hackers can easily buy domain names that are very similar to the real website domain used by one of your trusted suppliers. Your supplier might use xyzcompany.com, so the hacker buys xyzcommpany.com because an extra character can often go unnoticed, or they will a domain with a different extension, such as .net rather than .com.
Follow-up emails
The follow-up email is a painfully simple yet effective trick. Though hackers have to get the timing right for this, if they can send a follow-up email immediately after the real email, most people just assume it’s real and react accordingly.
Compromising a supplier’s email
It doesn’t even have to be your business that gets hacked for you to lose money! If hackers can compromise your supplier’s email and intercept the outgoing invoices, they can scam you into making payments to the wrong bank account.
Edited PDFs
Did you know that PDFs can be easily edited? Hackers can intercept invoice PDFs, edit them to change the bank account details, and then send them on to your customers. The person paying the invoice typically has zero suspicion that something is amiss, and your hard-earned money is drained to the hackers' account.
Social engineering
Once a hacker is inside your email, they gather information and look for opportunities. They simply have to figure out how they can leverage any break in normal processes and patterns of behavior to convince your staff that an unusual email came from you.
Have more questions about cybersecurity?
We've got a blog for that.
From what does phishing mean to what to do if you click on a phishing link, our cybersecurity blog is designed to give you the tools you need to better protect your business.
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