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Researchers at Stripe warn of a wave of spear phishing attacks targeting C-suite employees and senior leadership across a wide range of industries.
Researchers at Todyl have published a report on a major cybercriminal group that’s conducting business email compromise (BEC) attacks against small and medium-sized businesses. Todyl ...
Despite ransomware getting the lion’s share of the tech pub headlines, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are alive and well… and having a material impact.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has disclosed that people in the United States lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, a 14% increase from 2022. Nearly half of the losses were ...
Like a ghost, most business email compromise (BEC) scams are able to sneak through most technical defenses and end up in end-user inboxes.
Researchers at Trustwave have published a report outlining trends in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, finding that these attacks spiked in February of 2023.
The latest data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) ups the estimate for the cost of losses and exposure through business email compromise (BEC) attacks from 2013 through ...
Email-based social engineering attacks have risen by 464% this year compared to the first half of 2022, according to a report by Acronis. Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have also ...
Legitimate services can be exploited in social engineering, including business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Researchers at Check Point describe one current BEC campaign that’s using ...
Microsoft describes a sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted several financial organizations.
Microsoft has observed a thirty-eight percent increase in cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings for launching business email compromise (BEC) attacks between 2019 and 2022.
A newly identified criminal organization has been observed running a large number of business email compromise (BEC) scams. Since February 2021, Abnormal Security reports the gang has ...
The malwareless and seemingly benign nature of business email compromise emails, mixed with impersonation techniques, are difficult to spot as being malicious, making them even more ...
A new public service announcement focuses on a specific form of BEC attack using little more than a spoofed domain and common vendor payment practices to steal hardware, supplies and more.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested four alleged members of an organized crime group known for carrying out business email compromise (BEC) attacks, BleepingComputer ...
The US FBI is warning of business email compromise (BEC) attacks designed to steal physical goods. While BEC attacks are typically associated with stealing money, criminals can use the ...
Secureworks has published a report looking at cybercrime over the course of 2022, finding that business email compromise (BEC) attacks nearly doubled last year. Additionally, attacks in ...
According to Microsoft's Security Intelligence team, a recent business email compromise attack (BEC) has shown that threat actors are quickening the pace of these attacks, with certain ...
Despite hearing mostly about BEC attacks in English-speaking countries, analysis of new attack groups highlight the threat of these kinds of attacks in other languages.
An international cybercriminal operation responsible for millions of dollars in business email compromise (BEC) scams has finally been dismantled.
