Although there is a high risk for employees across many industries to click on a suspicious link or email or obey a fraudulent request, employees at financial institutions are among the least likely to fall for such an attack.
A man was recently arrested on a federal criminal complaint, charging him with fraud and identity theft offenses stemming from a scheme to obtain the personal identifying information of school employees in Connecticut and elsewhere.
A Wallingford man waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to fraud and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to steal bitcoins in an online phishing scheme.
From data breaches at big-box retailers to DDoS for bitcoin ransom scams, it seems like bankers are playing whac-a-mole just trying to keep up with all the cyber threats to today’s financial system.
