Beware of scammers’ ‘social engineering skills’, warns BENEFIT Company | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Beware of scammers’ ‘social engineering skills’, warns BENEFIT Company | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Scammers are deploying the best social engineering skills to commit cybercrime and everyone using a digital wallet must be aware of this, said Ali Beshara, the Head of Information Security and Risk Management at The BENEFIT Company. In an exclusive conversation with The Daily Tribune, the cybersecurity expert said BENEFIT and BenefitPay systems are very secure. “Our security system adheres to international standards and local security standards like PCIDSS and PCI-TSP. In addition to that, BENEFIT has a team of experts and we are investing in knowledge updates and building the technical capacity of the team,” Beshara said. He attributed the rise in online fund transfer scams to a lack of alertness on the part of users. “The BENEFIT Company has been issuing frequent awareness campaigns on its own and in collaboration with the banking and financial sector, Bahrain TV, Radio Bahrain as well as the General Directorate of Anti-Corruption, Economic and Electronic Security and participated in national awareness campaigns and collaborated with the Central Bank of Bahrain, the Ministry of Interior and Bahrain Association for Banks, in light of rising cases involving the hijacking of user accounts after sending fraudulent links randomly to people through SMS,” he said. Beshara