Criminals use Internet as a way to swindle people. They are becoming every time more specialized to deceive the users. But if we have some cyberhealthy habits we can prevent from getting our money and/or personal information stolen.

Recently, during the European Cybersecurity Month, we have explained which kind of frauds exist: phishing, ransomware and extortion among them.

Now, Internet Segura Program, within the framework of the campaign 'Practica els hàbits cibersaludables', offers some advice against digital fraud:

Website security

Device and systems protection

Network security and privacy

Fraud map

According to CESICAT's Cybersecurity Trend Analysis team, during the 3rd term of 2018, the threat of 'economic fraud' has fallen some positions, but still there are a great number of attacks to banks and criptocurrency exchange platforms. Europol, for example, found a network of cybercriminals who paid products with credit cards they obtained illegaly. They managed to get 18 million euros.

On the other hand, in Spain, there has been an important phishing campaign: an email which pretended to be a great electrical company in order to get users bank account information. The text assured to the victims that there was a mistake in the last bill issued by the company so they needed the information to proceed to repay an amount of 37€.