The tricolor start-up Anozr Way, rewarded this week at the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC) in Lille, is fighting once morest targeted attacks once morest business leaders and their employees, a phenomenon in full swing.
Of the millions of data stolen and put up for sale on the dark web (the non-public part of the internet), those concerning business leaders and their collaborators are particularly in the sights of hackers, explains Anozr Way.
Passwords in the sights of cybercriminals
Cybercriminals identify their target by scanning social networks, such as LinkedIn. On the dark web, they can find passwords to hack the email of one of the target’s collaborators and launch with a “spear phishing”, a tailor-made email on which the targeted boss will undoubtedly click.
Once the victim’s computer has been hacked, the hacker can transfer funds to an account opened under a false identity. Even easier, if the hackers find their target’s nickname and a password for Netflix, for example, on the dark web, there is a chance that it will also be that of his mailbox because “70 % of people use the same password for more than five sites,” said Adèle Hayel, marketing manager of Anozr Way.
More and more victimized companies
More and more companies are thus victims of “president scams”, which consist in usurping the identity of a company director in order to convince an employee to make a false transfer order.
Anozr Way, which has already raised 2 million euros, explores the dark web with the help of artificial intelligence to detect which employee data is exposed.
On an individual basis, the worst risk is that of identity theft, for example taking out a loan in your name with an online bank. “I saw the case of a woman who took ten years to prove that it was not her,” explains Adèle Hayel. In the United States, cases of usurpation have exploded. “Given the amount of data circulating in Europe, in five years, this might be horrible,” says Anozr Way.
(With AFP)
