17.12.2024 - As a business, you send emails to your customers all the time: project enquiries and processing, order placement, payment and delivery terms – a lot of things happen through this communication channel. It takes little effort for scammers to exploit this, but the damage to the victim can be enormous. A very interesting case of this happening was recently reported to us.
10.12.2024 - Over the past week, the NCSC has received numerous reports of attempted CEO fraud phishing scams. Churches, schools, associations and political parties are particularly affected as they often publish a lot of information on their websites that criminals can use to create credible scams. The scammers' aim is to get victims to make payments or buy gift cards online and send them the codes so that the scammers can redeem them.
06.12.2024 - At its meeting on 6 December, the Federal Council approved the report on cybersecurity exercises in the Federal Administration and the Armed Forces in response to the postulate submitted by Marcel Dobler (22.4081). The Federal Council has defined three strategic goals for cybersecurity exercises in the Federal Administration and the Armed Forces: it wants to strengthen internal coordination and cooperation, standardise the preparation and follow-up of cybersecurity exercises, and institutionalise cooperation across the Federal Administration and at international level. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is to play a key coordinating role in this process.
05.12.2024 - For this year's European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), the NCSC focused on raising awareness of social engineering and artificial intelligence (AI). We worked with a range of partners to develop targeted content for young people, professionals and seniors. This review highlights the campaign’s successes and key findings.
03.12.2024 - When the first snow falls and the Christmas holidays are just around the corner, many of us dream of visiting one of Switzerland’s famous holiday destinations. To find the right place to stay, we use a search engine or one of the popular booking sites. But there are scammers out there who want to steal your money and don’t care if they ruin your holiday. In this week’s review, we discuss recent examples of this type of scam.
02.12.2024 - The NCSC is currently receiving numerous reports of e-mails that claim to come from a debt collection agency or a health insurance company. They concern an alleged claim or reminder. Do not click on the link, as this is an attempt to distribute malware to Windows users.
26.11.2024 - The NCSC has received a growing number of reports of advertisements on social media that offer competitions or low-cost travelcards purportedly from Swiss and Liechtenstein transport companies. What may at first glance appear to be a tempting offer or a chance to win something may turn out to be a subscription or season ticket scam that could end up costing you dearly.
24.11.2024 – Since the early hours of the morning, the website of the Canton of Schwyz has been the target of an overload attack, a so-called DDoS attack. The attack is still ongoing and is currently causing the websites of various municipalities in different cantons, as well as various cantonal websites, to be unavailable. No information is currently available regarding the motivation.
19.11.2024 - Phishing using text messages has increased significantly in recent weeks. A wave of text messages demanding payment of bogus parking fines is now being followed by messages about fake parcel deliveries. Interestingly, these text messages no longer come in the standard form of an SMS, but via RCS, a protocol mainly used on Android devices, or via iMessage, Apple's text messaging service. This allows fraudsters to bypass mobile phone providers’ SMS filters.
14.11.2024 - Physical letters with MeteoSwiss as the sender are currently being sent out. The letters ask the recipients to download a new ‘Severe Weather Warning App’ via a QR code. However, malware is downloaded to the smartphone instead. This looks similar to the Alertswiss app from the Federal Office for Civil Protection on the smartphone's home screen.
