The City Council of Vitoria reported some frauds in the payment of several invoices after one of the supplier companies fell victim of identity fraud between March and June.
This scam was carried out via e-mail, providing fraudulent bank certificates to reference future payments of the new invoices.
With this information and the sending of other messages, the City Council made at different times the payment of such invoices until realizing the deception and proceeding, finally, to the modification of the reference bank account.
"id": "CIT2254161122",
"linkid": "city-of-victoria-bc",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "07/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"