Anthony Rafferty: Why you need to be extra wary of cybercrime

Increasing in lockdown

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Staying safe under the current pandemic crisis is more than about taking precautions to safeguard our physical health, writes Anthony Rafferty, it is also about protecting against threats to our financial health

Sadly, while the effects of the crisis have brought out the best in people - key workers in hospitals bravely continuing to work knowing they are coming into contact with Coronavirus, which has taken the lives of colleagues, for example - it has also highlighted the worst in the human race as criminals have significantly increased their attempts to steal cash and savings from people at a time when they are more vulnerable. At the start of the year I was asked what I thought would be one of the top concerns for financial services businesses in 2020 and cybercrime was among them, as organi...

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