Make Sure Your Business is Protected After a Cyberattack

In today’s high-tech world, businesses are often at the mercy of cybercriminals. Every day, hundreds of thousands of attacks on businesses are launched to do everything from steal company secrets, demand money, find concealed data, or just be disruptive.

There is not a business that is immune to these attacks and even the most tech-savvy companies and people can find themselves on the wrong side of a cyberattack.

There are many ways to help reduce the likelihood of some sort of cyberattack, and the number of companies that offer protection is endless, but criminals will find a way around these steps eventually.

At The Orlando Law Group, our goal is to ensure you take the steps before and after a cyber-attack to reduce your legal liability to your customers and vendors. Our attorneys specialize in helping businesses with all types of legal issues facing them, including cybersecurity recovery.

What Can Happen?  

The types of business scams using technology continue to increase and evade those companies fighting cybercrime.

For instance, just a few months ago, two of Central Florida’s most trusted institutions were hit by cyber-attacks.

At the University of Central Florida, an accountant received a notice from a vendor that their bank account had changed and that all payments needed to be sent to another bank. The university complied and sent the money to the new account not realizing the vendor’s email was hacked.

Once the money was received, the cybercriminals launched a “spam bomb” designed to overwhelm the email system to delay the discovery of the attack. It worked and the issue was not fully revealed for 12 days – and after $105,000 went missing.

Right after that, the non-profit OneBlood was attacked, and all systems were shut down until the organization was to pay a ransom. The organization eventually stopped the attack, but not before switching to manual systems to send blood to more than 220 hospitals. The attack also resulted in the data of thousands of donors to be compromised.

These are not isolated cases. The same criminals who attacked OneBlood have also attacked Rite-Aid, The Florida Department of Health and many others.

What types of scams are there?

Quite frankly, the types of online scams that are being used by criminals continue to evolve and get harder and harder to spot. With the improvements in artificial intelligence and virtual reality, it can be nearly impossible to detect a scam.

Here are a few of the ways that criminals are preying on their victims.

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