The Spanish Banking Association is participating in the European cybersecurity campaign, which starts today, to help citizens and organizations avoid cyber scams, which are increasingly focused on obtaining personal information rather than breaking into systems to obtain money.
Throughout this week and next, law enforcement agencies from 33 countries and 24 banking associations—along with entities and organizations fighting cybercrime—are joining forces through their communication channels and social media to collectively warn about the seven most common online scams.
The internet has become a very attractive medium for cybercriminals, who use increasingly sophisticated, innovative, and difficult-to-detect social engineering tactics to obtain consumers’ personal and financial information with the aim of extortion and theft of money, among other crimes.
The campaign, promoted by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the European Banking Federation (EBF), follows the recommendations of the 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) on the need to educate potential victims of cyber scams, a group that includes all online users.
Currently, phishing via email, smishing via text messages, and vishing via voice calls are the most common cybercrime methods targeting bank customers, but other widespread methods include fake websites.
Our website www.aebanca.es/category/ciberseguridad/ provides a guide to general cybersecurity tips and detailed information about the main cyber scams and how to avoid them. You can also follow our recommendations on Twitter using the hashtag #Ciberestafa.
