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Cayman’s Digital Forensic Hub has noted a spike in online attacks from cyber criminals seeking to defraud unsuspecting members of the public through scams varying from email phishing to cellphone messaging.
It is only six months into 2021 and already the Hub has launched six phishing investigations between January and May, which equals last year’s overall total of such probes.
Also, during the same period, 21 fraudulent uses of information and communications technologies/broadcast and communications technologies were investigated. There has also been three misuse-of-computers investigations.
Added to this, cyber forensic operative and Hub office manager John Watson said he has seen an increasing number of attacks that mimic local banks and he is urging the public to be vigilant.
“On island at the moment we have had a specific uptake in a number of SMS messages going out directing…
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