A whaling what…???

Name: What is Whaling
Uploaded: 2021-11-16 12:15:27
Duration: 71 s
Description: Imagine if your staff got an email they genuinely thought was from you. Asking them to pay an urgent bill for a new supplier they’d not heard of before. Is there any risk they could pay it? Because actually that email wasn’t sent by you. It’s a specific kind of cyber-crime called whaling, where criminals impersonate the boss. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Olly Denhard
Founder, IT Trouble Free
23 November 2021

Imagine if your staff got an email they genuinely thought was from you. Asking them to pay an urgent bill for a new supplier they’d not heard of before.

Is there any risk they could pay it?

Because actually that email wasn’t sent by you. It’s a specific kind of cyber-crime called whaling, where criminals impersonate the boss.

Here’s what you need to know about it.

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