One Compromised Email Can Change the Payment Details
Protect transactions, customer information and trusted communication.
Real-estate agencies exchange contracts, invoices, identity documents and payment instructions every day.
Criminals exploit this trust by compromising email accounts and impersonating agents, clients or suppliers.
Email Is Part of Every Property Transaction
Access
A criminal steals an employee's email password.
Observe
They silently monitor conversations and identify a transaction.
Impersonate
They send convincing payment instructions from a trusted account.
Redirect
Money is transferred to an account controlled by the criminal.
Business email compromise with financial loss represented 15% of top business cybercrime reports in FY2024–25.
ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024–25
What Real-Estate Agencies Need to Protect
MicroCyber Defence for Real-Estate Agencies
Email Monitoring
Identify suspicious logins, forwarding rules and account behaviour.
Phishing Protection
Detect impersonation campaigns targeting staff, clients and your brand.
Vulnerability Discovery
Find exposed websites, remote services and security weaknesses.
24/7 Threat Monitoring
Investigate suspicious activity outside normal office hours.
Payment-Fraud Readiness
Strengthen verification processes for payment and account-detail changes.
Incident Response
Know who to contact and what to do when an account is compromised.
Three Immediate Ways to Reduce Email Fraud
Enable MFA
Require an additional verification step for every business email account.
Verify payment changes
Confirm new account details using a known phone number, not the email requesting the change.
Remove automatic forwarding
Review unexpected inbox rules that may secretly copy messages to an attacker.
Frequently Asked Questions
Agencies exchange contracts, invoices and payment instructions constantly by email, making a single compromised inbox valuable for redirecting settlement or rental payments.