- A Pune-based firm suffered a loss of over 24,000 Euros in a ‘man-in-the-middle’ cyber attack due to a single-letter discrepancy in an email address.
- Cyber criminals mimicked the email of a French company’s sales manager, causing the Pune firm to transfer funds to a fraudulent Portuguese bank.
- The cybercrime was revealed when the French company claimed non-receipt of payment, triggering a review that revealed the email fraud.