Do not click on links before fully investigating them. Do not call given phone numbers.
Do not submit PII to anyone, anywhere, unless you have initiated the contact and are absolutely clear that you are speaking with/logged into/emailing/form-filling in an environment you are certain is secure.
The Caribbean Chapter of the ISC2 has issued guidance and advice for internet users facing phishing messages and WhatsApp scams.
Text messages with false information claiming to have been sent by TTPost are circulating widely and are crude phishing attempts.
“To build a cybersecurity minded culture, it’s really all about education. Teach everybody everything.”
Once malware is in the system, it establishes a connection to the infiltrator’s computer and transmits information gathered from its initial beachhead.
TT Post phishing email in circulation
“We’ve got all the weaknesses we’ve always had, but we’ve got all these new areas which are providing scammers and fraudsters with a whole new range of options to attack us with enticements.”
Sometimes it can also be embarrassing, particularly if someone carelessly signed up for Tinder using your email address and you have to explain to your spouse exactly how this happened.
With more than US$1 billion paid in ransomware demands in 2016 alone and years of work lost in data that remains inaccessible, the cost of not securing networks has sharply risen in the last five years.
When in doubt, take the longer route to access your personal information online, complete with verifications.
She was now locked out of her account. She was shocked at how quickly it had happened and the fact that the call and each of the text messages had come from the number she had saved for Bank of America on her phone.
