Email attacks and shimming attack

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AISCON 2016

PAUL BABILA MBUA BENGYELLAExecutive Director/Founder Zixtech Organization

CEO / Founder Entrepreneurs InitiativeJCI Limbe Atlantic President 2017

EMAIL ATTACKS / PHISHING ATTACKS

DECEPTIVE PHISHING

• Impersonate a legitimate company and attempt to steal people’s personal information or login credentials. THEY USE THREATS AND SENSE OF URGENCY

• THEY ACT AS A LEGITIMATE COMPANY

SPEAR PHISHING• It uses target’s name, position, company, work

phone number and other information in an attempt to trick the recipient into believing that they have a connection with the sender.

• THEY ACT AS A THEY KNOW YOU, THEY PROVIDE SOME INFOS ABOUT YOU

• cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. Billion stolen from 100banks in 30 countries in 2015

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/16/technology/bank-hack-kaspersky/index.html?section=money_topstories

WHAT IS PHISHING• LEARN MORE FROM THIS VIDEO

HOW TO DETECT IT• Don’t trust the display name• Don’t be in a haste to click every link• Check for spelling mistakes• Analyze the salutation (Vague Greetings)• Don’t give up personal information• Beware of urgent or threatening language in

the subject line• Don’t click on attachments

DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE

HOW TO PREVENT IT• Conduct security awareness training for staff• (2SV) Two-step verification, • Enter sensitive information only on ‘https://

RUN GENUINE ANTIVIRUS (Virus + malware), Firewall Windows or others (Updated)

• Never Go to Your Bank’s Website by Clicking on Links Included in Emails

• Be careful of too good to be true• Be careful of WEBSITES YOU OPEN/LINKS U CLICK

ATM ATTACKSSHIMMING ATTACK

Billions of francs is lost to Shimming attacksShimming technology changes rapidly

SHIMMING?• A shimmer is a device that's placed inside the

ATM to intercept communications between the chip card and the chip reader.

(All card details stolen)

PREVENTION• INSPECT ATM MACHINE (User and Bank)

• ALWAYS CHECK ACCOUNT BALANCE• SMS TRANSACTION NOTIFICATION

THANK YOU

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