AI Scams Are Here: Practical Steps to Secure Your Small Business
A.I. powered scams exploded in late 2025 and continue to grow in 2026 with attackers using generative AI to phish and then manage full email conversations to create a believable back and forth thread to trick small businesses. The latest data is showing 43%-86% of email attacks are now A.I. managed. (Source: Hoxhunt, KnowBe4).
Small businesses are seeing AI attacks from email, website chats and even ‘deep fake’ voice calls which can have surprisingly accurate voice representations.
Online bad actors are targeting small businesses where payment approvals may be less rigid, single users completing entire transactions with full self management of processes, a lack of investment in Cyber Security Management, Training and Defence products leaves small businesses are the perceived easy target.
How can you protect your business?
- Training, Training, Training.
This cant be stated enough, the greatest risk to your business finances is poor cyber security training. It’s also important to note that without comprehensive training and records, organisations are unable to take action on staff for Financial or Personal Data breeches, the company would need to prove the staff member did know better.Tetrabyte can offer staff training programs in Cyber Security, Phishing, Data Protection and more from as little as £3.34 per user per month. - Multi-Factor Authentication.
We all know the pain of MFA on sign in’s but it really does work to protect your accounts. Its not a basic requirement for all Cyber Security reviews and standards and should NOT be optional. With systems such as Microsoft 365, we can simplify the pain of MFA with Single Sign on over multiple products and Conditional Access rules to ensure your only checked when needed.Speak to Tetrabyte for a security review of all your systems. - Financial Workflows.
While procedures can feel inhibiting, they can protect your business. Raising PO’s, validating supplier banking information, two person approval for release of funds and ensuring transactions are validated outside of email all build great protections for your business.
To ease the burden of such processes, its possible to set limits where risk is managed based on the transaction size.The key is to make time to set this up before a breech occurs, not after! - Email Filtering Services.
Microsoft provide a great level of filtering on emails but more accurate and advanced systems are still available. One of the easiest ways to protect your business is to prevent scam communications ever arriving in your business. Implementing and validating SPF, DKIM and DMARC should be a default part of all email setups.Speak to Terabyte for a review of your needs. - Endpoint Security Detection and Response.
Ensure that attackers that do get into your systems are detected and removed fast. Fully managed Detection and Response provides 24/7 monitoring of your systems to ensure that action is taken fast when things look suspicious.Tetrabyte can provide a fully staffed Security Operation Centre with Endpoint Security software monitoring your devices and taking immediate action when threats are detected.
Take action today
All of these points might seem daunting, it might seem a lot to figure out and manage, but the first step is to simply email Tetrabyte and say you want to know more. Our amazing team will work with you, at your pace, steadily review your current position and recommend how different solution may benefit you. So just drop us a quick email and let us know you want to talk about Cyber Security.
