The FBI Catches CEO Fraud Scammers by Giving Them a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Dec 7, 2018 2:29:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The case of how the FBI turned the tables on cybercriminals using the very same tactics demonstrates how powerful the art of social engineering and deception can get a victim to act.

CEO Fraud Attacks are Citing the California Wildfires

Dec 5, 2018 6:50:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Criminals are using the California wildfires as a social engineering tactic to manipulate people into buying gift cards supposedly intended for victims of the disaster, according to James ...

Learning a 120K Lesson the Hard Way

Dec 1, 2018 10:52:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bank isn’t always responsible for making you whole after a business email compromise. Indiana’s Lake Ridge Schools lost more than $120,000 from a seven-million-dollar construction ...

Attackers Impersonate CEOs to Scam Employees into Sending Gift Cards for the Holidays

Dec 1, 2018 8:07:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A crafty mix of social engineering, great timing, and context act as the perfect ingredients to trick unwitting users into buying gift cards and placing them into the hands of the ...

[Heads-up] Bad Guys Are Now Taking Over Email Inboxes Without Phishing Attacks

Nov 24, 2018 8:43:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I found a great article in SecurityWeek by Alastair Paterson, the CEO of Digital Shadows. Could not have said it better myself, and he alerted everyone about an attack vector that was ...

Hacked Real Estate Firm Can't Claw Back $580,000 From Bank That Completed Transfer

Nov 17, 2018 2:50:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Max Mitchell at Law.com has an interesting and rather painful story. Don't let this happen to your organization.

[Heads-up] FIRED: Two C-level Execs Who Fall Victim To A Massive 21 Million Dollar CEO Fraud

Nov 10, 2018 10:56:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Two top-level executives of movie chain Pathé—the Managing Director and the CFO—were fired recently, after it became clear that they fell for a massive CEO Fraud attack that could have ...

[Heads-up] U.S. Government: "Your Weak Cyber Security Violates Federal Law"

Oct 21, 2018 8:36:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Reuters just made me aware of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report about a recent SEC investigation if nine companies that had been victims of CEO fraud had sufficient ...

Brand-New Tool: Domain Doppelgänger Identifies Evil Twin Domains

Sep 27, 2018 10:56:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I gave you a heads-up a few days ago, and now I'm excited to announce the actual release of a new tool to help protect your organization from the bad guys.

Phishing Attack On Office 365 Account Leads To 3 Million CEO Fraud

Sep 24, 2018 7:02:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A phishing attack on an Office 365-account enabled a 3 Mil CEO Fraud Scam at an investment firm. Finnish antivirus company F-Secure reported on their blog. One of the employees at the ...

[ALERT] CEO Fraud Escalates. Bad Guys Now Go After Employee Personal Address And Phone Number

Sep 14, 2018 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is observing a serious escalation of CEO Fraud. They are now requesting street addresses and personal phone numbers of employees—an attempt to contact and manipulate employees ...

Size Still Doesn’t Matter Especially When It Comes To CEO Fraud

Sep 6, 2018 3:17:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lloyds Bank says that Business Email Compromise (BEC)—also known as CEO Fraud—rose by 58% in the UK over the past year. While BEC is often associated by the media with large firms, ...

Email Impersonation aka CEO Fraud Remains on the Rise

Sep 4, 2018 2:26:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With an average of 1 in 6 users receiving email-based impersonation attacks, it spells bad news for organizations.

Scam Of The Week: Another New CEO Fraud Phishing Wrinkle

Jul 20, 2018 4:08:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, here's a new CEO Fraud phish: see these fresh screen shots from emails reported to us through the free KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button. Bad guys spoof the managing partner and CPA and an ...

$250,000 CEO Fraud In A Municipal Finance Department

Jul 19, 2018 1:46:37 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Local, state, and Federal authorities are investigating a phishing attack that victimized the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico. One of the city's procurement officers received what appeared ...

FBI Warns that Business Email Compromise (CEO Fraud) is a "$12 Billion Scam"

Jul 18, 2018 3:22:37 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI is again warning of the threat posed by business email compromise (BEC, aka CEO Fraud) and email account compromise (EAC). Together, says the Bureau, these have cost businesses ...

[Heads-up] Employees Sue Company For W-2 Phishing Scam. Federal Court Decides Triple Damages

Jun 25, 2018 7:13:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Imagine my surprise when I saw a picture of myself in the blog of large North Carolina Law firm Poyner Spruill. It was all good though. They had picked up an example of a real W-2 ...

Finally, The Criminals Pay in CEO Fraud Scam

Jun 14, 2018 4:08:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Some good news finally. It seems that the bad guys do get caught sometimes. In this case, 70 cybercriminals in the U.S. and Nigeria.

Surprise! What's The Country Where All The CEO Fraud Gangs Are?

May 24, 2018 5:05:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new study by Agari concludes that, despite all the attention nation-state espionage services have been getting for their phishing attacks, the big threat still comes from criminal gangs.

The Class Action Litigation Consequences of Business Email Compromise Attacks

Feb 23, 2018 11:41:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sunil Shenoi, Seth Traxler and Gianni Cutri are partners at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and advise clients on a variety of data security issues, including responding to data security incidents, ...

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The FBI Catches CEO Fraud Scammers by Giving Them a Taste of Their Own Medicine

CEO Fraud Attacks are Citing the California Wildfires

Learning a 120K Lesson the Hard Way

Attackers Impersonate CEOs to Scam Employees into Sending Gift Cards for the Holidays

[Heads-up] Bad Guys Are Now Taking Over Email Inboxes Without Phishing Attacks

Hacked Real Estate Firm Can't Claw Back $580,000 From Bank That Completed Transfer

[Heads-up] FIRED: Two C-level Execs Who Fall Victim To A Massive 21 Million Dollar CEO Fraud

[Heads-up] U.S. Government: "Your Weak Cyber Security Violates Federal Law"

Brand-New Tool: Domain Doppelgänger Identifies Evil Twin Domains

Phishing Attack On Office 365 Account Leads To 3 Million CEO Fraud

[ALERT] CEO Fraud Escalates. Bad Guys Now Go After Employee Personal Address And Phone Number

Size Still Doesn’t Matter Especially When It Comes To CEO Fraud

Email Impersonation aka CEO Fraud Remains on the Rise

Scam Of The Week: Another New CEO Fraud Phishing Wrinkle

$250,000 CEO Fraud In A Municipal Finance Department

FBI Warns that Business Email Compromise (CEO Fraud) is a "$12 Billion Scam"

[Heads-up] Employees Sue Company For W-2 Phishing Scam. Federal Court Decides Triple Damages

Finally, The Criminals Pay in CEO Fraud Scam

Surprise! What's The Country Where All The CEO Fraud Gangs Are?

The Class Action Litigation Consequences of Business Email Compromise Attacks

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