Kosovo police recommend businesses on how to protect themselves from cyber crimes

According to a media report, the Police Information Office shows that recent reports are being reported by owners of various business companies dealing with a form of fraud through computer systems, resulting in considerable damage.

Suspects, according to police, arrive in various forms to provide data for such business companies as the circulation of goods, bills, various payments, computer communications (e-mails), etc.

“These data process or forge them in such a way as to be trusted and then start by fraud. Based on the cases thus far, suspected persons have managed to interfere with internet communication (email exchange) of business companies (one in Kosovo and the other outside Kosovo), by converting the accounts and submitting to the company's name, to which they had to transfer goods to. Unfortunately, in some cases the transfers have been realised and the means have been pulled out of Kosovo, but in some cases they have been stopped and the means are also blocked in banks outside Kosovo, as fraud” has been quickly reported, police reports.

Technically, this form of crime according to the Police, it is possible to carry out, but pre-emptive conditions must be created.

This thing can be done through a virus infection of companies' computers, and then access to computers and simultaneously in all the documents and data that your computer possesses. The infection of the virus computer is done in several ways, such as through linked materials in forged e-mails, via USBs and so on. The investigation and identification of the heads of these works is not easy, but also more complex is the nature of cases where almost all are international”, reports police, which adds that even though business management is the individual responsibility of any business owner, but in view of the cases that have occurred, Kosovo Police see the need to issue some recommendations for business companies in order not to fall prey to these frauds.

The recommendations are like the following:

• Provide antivirus computer systems;
• Use only one computer for communication as well as that in controlled form, for example. only one or two employees of the company dealing with communications and transactions; on this computer no software should be installed except those necessary for performing jobs, for which there are licenses;
• Do not let suspicious e-mails be opened or the sender is not known to;
• Prove that the e-mail from the partner company is real (the wrongdoer changes or adds only one character to the e-mail for example). rather than the letter OTexted with U n ) [email protected] True e-mail, while [email protected] A false e-mail.
• Before authorising the transaction, to be confirmed with the partner company if the record is true, this can be done through communication in other forms (e.g. on a fixed phone; for any transaction to contact respective banks in Kosovo, it can also be known where the accounts are located.

If such measures are taken, according to the police, the risk of being a victim of fraud will be very low.

“We also encourage you to report the case to the nearest Kosovo Police station if you happen to face something like this or know that it is trying to accomplish the work. Kosovo police are ready at any time to engage in creating security for all levels of society. This very business announcement, we believe, will affect their awareness and there will be no damage that are difficult to recover”, says the Police Community. /