Cultivated from various reports in the past year, we have compiled a fact sheet detailing an overview of Scams Activity and Email threats for your business to be aware of.
Many of these email threats stealthily slip past the gateway. Threats like ransomware, spear phishing, and account takeover put your organisation and employees at significant risk.
Scam losses reported by businesses increased by 260% in 2020, to $18 million from $5 million in 2019.
False Billing and Phishing Scams are the most reports made by businesses.
These scams typically involve a request for payment for a service or item that wasn’t ordered or a scammer diverting money by impersonating the intended recipient of a payment.
Micro and small businesses received the largest number of scam reports, with the majority originating from false billing, phishing and identity theft.
Large businesses experienced the highest losses with the most reported category being phishing.
Business Email Compromise is one of the top 3 scams causing the most financial harm to Australians and New Zealanders in 2020.
Combined losses for business email compromise scams totaled $128 million in 2020.
Scamwatch received around 1,300 reports in 2020, with over $14 million in losses, compared to approximately 900 reports with $5 million in losses in 2019.
Top Two Sources of Data Breaches under the NDB scheme
Malicious or criminal attacks (including cyber incidents) remain the leading source of data breaches, accounting for 65% of notifications.
Data breaches resulting from human error accounted for 30% of notifications, the top cause for this was personal information emailed to wrong recipient.
Cyber security incidents impacting organisations in New Zealand
Phishing and credential harvesting is one of the most reported incident types to CERT NZ, making up 46% of all incident reports
Scams and fraud, and unauthorised access have increased significantly since Q4 2020; by 50% and 100% respectively.
CERT NZ identified almost 500 vulnerable Microsoft Exchange email servers and over 100 compromised email servers. The majority of the compromised mail servers belonged to small businesses.
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Source: Targeting scams: Report of the ACCC on scams activity 2020 (ACCC, 7 June 2021)
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