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January 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Finra punishes former Schwab broker for lying about role in $800,000 CEO Fraud scam

A former broker for Charles Schwab & Co.was fined $5,000 and suspended for 90 days by Finra for lying to Schwab about a CEO Fraud attack in which he wired nearly $800,000 to someone ...

January 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Judge Calls for County Officials to Resign After Falling Victim to a $500K CEO Fraud Scam

Months after a classic fraud scam took Galveston County for $525,000, County Judge Mark Henry is now asking for the County Auditor and Purchasing Agent to resign.

December 20, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Real Estate Transactions are Increasingly Vulnerable to CEO Fraud

The real estate industry is a particularly attractive target for BEC (Business Email Compromise—also known as CEO Fraud—attacks, according to FBI spokesman David Fitz. Fitz told The ...

December 7, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

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

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.

December 5, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

CEO Fraud Attacks are Citing the California Wildfires

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 ...

December 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Learning a 120K Lesson the Hard Way

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 ...

December 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

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

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 ...

November 24, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

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

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 ...

November 17, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

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

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

November 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

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

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 ...

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