Your business has a contact form on its website, right? Then you need to know about a new sophisticated cyber-attack.

 As email security gets better and better at preventing malicious messages from reaching you, cybercriminals are inventing new ways to infect systems.

 Their latest technique uses the contact form on a business’s website.

 They fill in the form to start a conversation, pretending to be a potential customer.

 When you email your reply, they send a file, claiming it’s relevant to your conversation. It’s sent using a file-sharing service – such as WeTransfer – to bypass your email account’s security.

 If you open and run the file, bad news… you’ve given the criminals access to your device. This can lead to a ransomware attack, where your files are encrypted until you pay a huge ransom fee.

 The best defence against this new kind of attack is training for your staff. Can we help protect your business from all security threats?

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That’s your tech update, more next week.