CYBERInsights: Keeping Your Business Cyber-safe during the Festive Season
HOLIDAY CYBER ATTACKS: Keeping Your Business Cyber-safe during the Festive Season
Syndicated By: Iain Fraser – Cybersecurity Journalist/PR Wire
The festive season presents numerous new highs of business among retail entities and consumers which also means a huge amplification of opportunities for eCrime actors to conduct malicious campaigns directed against these targets.
eCrime actors in this period are most likely to use phishing campaigns, opportunistic scams, payment-system attacks, and disruptive operations in the form of ransomware campaigns to achieve their ultimate objective of financial gain.
With the increased volume of ransomware attacks, coupled with sales public events, and the reduction of security professionals behind the scenes due to the holiday season, Adversaries will use this magic time as a springboard for targeting not only establishments but also the supply chain.
