Puerto Rico’s government has lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam- commentary from Webroot
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Puerto Rico’s government has lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam- commentary from Webroot "This attack should come as a wake-up call, as the humble phishing attack continues to catch people out. These threats are becoming more sophisticated and targeted, and it only takes one click to put an entire network at risk, or one misled employee or insecure process to lose huge amounts of money as we have seen in this case. Governments hold a huge amount of sensitive data and lessons need to be learned from this. To mitigate future attacks, ongoing, tailored security awareness training should be implemented for staff from day one, ensuring that they are vigilant in scrutinising all the types of emails and other communications they receive. This should be underpinned by cybersecurity technology such as email filtering, anti-virus protection, and strong password policies, along with carefully designed and orchestrated processes to catch fraud attempts such as this.
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