{"id":1098,"date":"2017-06-28T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-06-28T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T05:30:10","slug":"bank-like-heists-make-way-for-new-wave-of-cyber-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/bank-like-heists-make-way-for-new-wave-of-cyber-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bank-like heists\u2019 make way for new wave of cyber crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Identity theft is an increasingly popular method of cyber crime as opposed to \u201cbank-like heists\u201d of the past, and\u00a0SMSF\u00a0trustees are a prime target, according to a university professor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plannerweb.com.au\/images\/insideous-side.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor Matthew Warren, deputy director at the Deakin University Centre for Cyber Security Research, told SMSF Adviser cyber criminals are no longer simply after stealing lump sums by cracking through security systems.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, criminals aim for identity theft, which allows them to assume the identity of the client and transfer funds out into a different account, going under the radar of SMSF firms on the lookout for suspicious external activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttackers wouldn\u2019t necessarily go after superannuation funds to extract large sums of money in a single transaction because they know identity theft and assuming the identity of customers of those organisations would just be as successful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Warren said there is more than one route of attack facing trustees, but more often than not, the pathway is based around identity theft utilising a social engineering method.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA social engineering attack is when you are trying to manipulate people\u2019s actions in terms of a social context whether it\u2019s via email, whether it\u2019s phoning someone and pretending to be someone else or whether it is physically going into an organisation,\u201d said Professor Warren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in terms of threats you are not seeing one particular type of threat but you are now seeing the sophistication of attackers develop a number of different threat strategies into a single attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KATARINA\u00a0TAURIAN\u00a0AND\u00a0JOTHAM\u00a0LIAN<br \/>\nTuesday, 13 Jun 2017<br \/>\nwww.accountantsdaily.com.au<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Identity theft is an increasingly popular method of cyber crime as opposed to \u201cbank-like heists\u201d of the past, and\u00a0SMSF\u00a0trustees are a prime target, according to a university professor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}