The Leondinger fire brigade supplier Rosenbauer, the Ranshofner aluminum producer Amag, the Vienna Biotech company Marinomed: These companies are just a few examples of companies that have recently become victims of cybercrime. The production was partially interrupted or restricted, Marinomed announced that this resulted in a transfer of 677,000 euros to third parties outside the European economic area. The number of unreported cases is high: many attacks are not known.
The global networking and the advance of applications based on artificial intelligence make it easier to carry out criminals to carry out attacks with relatively little effort. Every seventh cyber attack in Austria is also successful, as can be seen from the study “Cyber Security in Austria”, which the consulting company KPMG presented on Tuesday and which was created for the tenth time. Around 1400 companies were interviewed for this. “Digitization and artificial intelligence penetrate all areas of life, from industry to energy supply to private life. This exponentially increases the area of attack,” says Robert Lamprecht, cyber security expert at KPMG. The most common tools of criminals are still phishing: attempts are made to steal money or identities by moving a person to enter their personal information such as credit card numbers, bank details or passwords on websites that pretend to be serious, but are not temporarily tempted by links in emails or by attaching. The SCAM fragrances come in second place in the most common methods: fraudsters are false identity and thereby try to obtain confidential information such as passwords, credit card information, etc. or to blackmail money.
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