Cybercriminals are exploiting basic human error, including sharing passwords, weak access controls and low awareness, to defraud small businesses as they grow more dependent on digital payments and online platforms, experts said at a roundtable yesterday.

A “cybercriminal gang” attempted to release a container of cigarettes from Chattogram Port after breaching the server of the National Board of Revenue with the login credentials of a customs official.

Russian online security specialist Eugene Kaspersky says cybercriminals will one day go for bigger targets than PCs and mobiles, sabotaging entire transport networks, electrical grids or financial systems.