“Doxing" – what is it and how this trend can affect on your company?
Cybercrime, as a form of crime, has been observed ever since 1820. Of course, this fact is not a surprise, knowing that the first versions of the computers appeared around 3500 B.C. Over the years, the form of this type of crime has varied, but generally, it is about two main categories: category in which computers are the target, and the category in which computers are used as a weapon for performing various criminal acts in the real world. In recent years, due to the rapid changes that are happening in the digital world, extortion is commonly associated with what everyone is most valuable today - databases. In fact, they are already so common, so they became part of the main areas everybody has to deal with, especially large organizations and companies. There is a trend that is very popular today, and probably will continue to be in future. I am talking about "doxing ", a very fast-growing threat in the digital world. Let me explain this word at first. Even if it sounds as a complex cybercrime threat, it is somewhat simple. Doxing is having his origins from the word "doc", which when turned into a verb, means to grab important data for a person or companies and put them public online. This information can vary from email addresses, phone numbers, IP or MAC addresses and much other information that can harm you. Doxing often is used as a form of cybercrime in order to perform some revenge, but mostly it is a forgery or identity theft. However, what this type of cybercrime makes particularly significant and important, is that many criminals use it in order to generate huge profits. The obtained information is especially valuable on the black market; so many criminals use it to steal information from important characters in companies such as general managers, CEOs etc. Knowing that doxing may target important people in the company, the connection is clear how this type of crime is quite dangerous for any company. Of course, individual protection is one of the things that every individual must preserve because it is a starting point through which criminal actions are taking place. The information security is the next thing that every company must have in mind and undertake serious measures for its implementation. To explain the above said, simpler. Suppose you are part of a large company that is a dangerous competitive player in the market. Your CEO is subject to doxing longer period and has most of the information from his email messages, websites for e-commerce, social accounts and other information undertaken. Of course, these figures are for communication between him and the company's employees. Therefore, here are taken quite important information about the company's operations, and that they are as valuable on the black market. Any company that engages around reputation management, of course, must heed doxing because it is used very frequently to destroy a brand. Whether this will be achieved by shaking the link between you and your customers, through the execution of a financial or another type of fraud, falsification of documents, programs, etc., will certainly make huge damages that will take long to be recovering.
The trend of this type of crime is growing. You will hear that he is just as the wind, you will not see it, but will certainly feel it. Precisely this is why you have to take measures that will help in this. Engaging cyber security provider is the first step to getting started. You may not see the importance of doxing, but the criminals' will sure do. So, better contact CR Risk Advisory, as a company who can help you protect from all the cybercrime variations. Therefore, they will take care for your reputation and remove all negative links connected with your company, making sure your brand stays clear and safe.