Beware Of Fake Calls From The Local Sheriff The Belknap County Sheriff’s Department is warning the public of a scam that is recirculating this year. It has been reported that fraudsters are calling local individuals pretending to be someone from the Belknap County Sheriff’s Department attempting to con victims into...
Beware Of Unexpected Text Messages: Are You Being Smished?
Beware Of Unexpected Text Messages: Are You Being Smished? Our Risk Management Department noted that there has been an uptick in “smishing” attacks. Smishing is when a fraudster sends you a text message with a malicious link or virus. A common example is getting fake package tracking information that claim...
Fraud Calls Coming From Area Code 212
Fraud Calls Coming From Area Code 212 Our Risk Management Department has received notifications that members of the local community are receiving phone calls from an area code 212 (New York) phone number that has been in a foreign language and has music playing in the background. The language is...
Protect Your Company From A Common Email Compromise
Protect Your Company From A Common Email Compromise Our Risk Management department noted that we’ve recently heard from some of our business customers about an uptick in a very common business email compromise – when a hacker gains access to an email account and begins to send emails pretending to...
Equifax Breach Settlement Information
Equifax Breach Settlement Information You may remember that two years ago on July 29, 2017, one of the three top credit reporting companies was the victim of a major data breach. Equifax announced that the personal and financial information of approximately 148 million Americans had likely been compromised. Sensitive information...
Capital One Data Breach Information
Capital One Data Breach Information What happened? It is all too timely in light of the recent settlement talks of the 2017 Equifax breach, that it was disclosed this morning that Capital One has suffered a data breach. Between March 22nd and 23rd, 2019, a software engineer was able to...
Beware Of Credential Stuffing
Beware Of Credential Stuffing This spring and summer, our Risk Management team noted that our area seems to be seeing an uptick in credential stuffing, a type of cyber attack. While hackers have not been able to use this attack to access accounts at the Bank, we wanted to alert...
