Dorothy Ricketts, Vice President of Security Savings Bank, describes how malware can enter your individual or business computer system, and how you can prevent a future attack from taking place.
“Oftentimes there’s an email that’s received into the company, and an unsuspecting person — or perhaps an untrained person — clicks on an email that goes out to a link, and it allows the malware, or in these cases ransomware, to be downloaded into their system. And then it (ransomware) take over,” Ricketts said.
Ricketts explained how a potentially harmful attack at her bank was recently negated.
“Our Chief Financial Officer got an email from our President that said, ‘Please wire X amount of dollars and here are the wiring instructions. The luxury of a being a small-town bank is that he (CFO) was able to walk to the President’s office and say, ‘Hey, why are you asking me to wire money?’ They were able to laugh about it because they recognized it (scam) right away.”
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