February 2019:
In this edition, we highlight our due diligence, investigation and protection service provisions; we examine the latest ‘sextortion’ cyber scam hitting our email inboxes and provide tactical advice around protecting your organisation from internal security breaches.
Phishing Scams
In recent years, we have been contacted by numerous clients regarding ‘sextortion’ scams. Sextortion scams are a type of phishing attack whereby people are coerced to pay a Bitcoin ransom because they have been threatened with sharing the video of themselves visiting adult websites. These scams are made to appear even more credible because they provide seemingly plausible technical details about how this was achieved. The phish can sometimes also include the individual’s password.
Security Awareness
We have recently assisted several clients to ensure their technical security measures deployed are commensurate with identified risks such as GDPR, data and cyber security – listening to our clients revealed a forgotten yet crucial tool – staff. Giving your staff the right information and setting parameters of operating through a clear set of processes and procedures is extremely important – it allows everyone to have the confidence to act when necessary.
Our Due Diligence, Investigation and Protection Services
Working closely with our clients, we will continue to:
• provide our clients with the core tools to prevent, detect and investigate fraud & infringement
• protect our clients’ reputations from risk through effective due diligence and investigation
• keep our clients’ digital and physical resilience through appropriate ‘security by design’
• protect our clients, people and their livelihoods from harm
• and deliver the highest levels of professional support, often in difficult circumstances, by building and maintaining trusted relationships