- Pond Webmaster
- 18 Aug 16
How to avoid “Whaling” fraud against your business
Recently an interesting news piece was published on The BBC website about a fraud scam attacking many businesses across the UK, known as “Whaling” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34570713. Similar to what we know as phishing attacks, that tend to be aimed at smaller fry, Whaling is where hackers instead target a ‘big fish’ within the business, typically the financial director or similar. [OK, we know whales are not fish, but we didn’t make up that term!] We were alerted to this a couple of months ago, as businesses we knew witnessed first hand cyber-thieves trying to commit fraud against them. The particular scam is simple; the attackers research their ‘mark’ carefully, targeting […]
