Canada: Protecting Your Organization From Wire Fraud [telecom]

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By Nathan Schissel, Stathy Markatos and Matthew Barnes

On March 18, 2020, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre ("CACF") released a bulletin warning Canadians that fraudsters are exploiting the COVID-19 global health crisis to commit fraud and cyber-crime. As a result of organizations transitioning their employees to work-from-home or remote access arrangements in response to the crisis, new vulnerabilities are appearing which existing IT infrastructures may not have contemplated.