Many scammers use translation services to trick their victims into email breaches. A year ago, a script thief who obtained scripts from well-known writers, via translated emails, made a huge mess. This is how it should be You do to avoid being affected.
With a few quick clicks, you can translate text from Swedish to another language. Via services like Google Translate, you can enter short or long text, which is generated in no time into a reasonably accurate translation.
Ultra-smooth – think students, individuals, office workers, and tourists.
Phenomenon – think scammers.
If someone in the United States, for example, wants to access your data or your money, they can send you a message in Swedish.
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Email breaches are on the rise
Security researchers are now warning of new email hack attempts where translation services are used. It’s reports Sweden computer.
Email breaches have increased sharply in recent years and now account for just over a third of all cybercrime.
The problem used to be more common in English-speaking countries, but now there is an increase – due to translation services. This means that the scammers have been able to expand their operations to other countries.
He cheated hundreds of thousands of kronor
Many companies in different countries have reported being affected by email breaches.
The fraudsters were then able to trick the employees into paying hundreds of thousands of crowns to accounts in France, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
Security firm Abnormal Security warns of groups of Mandarin Capybara and Midnight Hedgehog, who have communicated with key figures in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian – among others.
This is how companies can reduce risks
How do you spot a scam?
You can, of course, check for grammatical errors and misspellings. Does the text in the email look strange or incoherent? Then it could be a warning signal.
But sometimes the text is right. So what do we do?
According to Abnormal Security, companies and organizations should tighten their procedures and inform employees of the phenomenon, in order to reduce the risk of fraud.
Ideally, employees should be prevented from receiving emails in the first place, which could be regulated through security systems that use machine learning and artificial intelligence to understand the identity and deviant behavior among the emails a company receives.
Manustujv has used translation services
Last spring, the FBI caught a person who had been plagiarizing text books from famous authors around the world for five years. Among those affected were the Swedish publishers of Norstedt, the authors David Lagercrantz And Jonas Johnson (“The Muammar Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”). The emails are written in Swedish.
Fortunately, the fraudster was unable to obtain David Lagercrantz’s “Millennium” script, nor Jonas Jonasson’s latest book. But it was an unpleasant experience.
Jonas Jonasson said in an interview with SVT Kulturnyheterna.
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