News about the latest CEO fraud attacks. See how the bad guys actually do this and how much money companies lose to this type of scam.
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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
With an average of 1 in 6 users receiving email-based impersonation attacks, it spells bad news for organizations.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
This week the international carrier Japan Airlines (JAL) admitted it had fallen victim to CEO Fraud that cost it 384 million yen (about $3.39 million). The incidents took place in ...
Trend Micro researchers reported that cybercriminals spoofed the CEO email address the most, with CFOs and finance directors being the top attack targets. In their 2017 Midyear Security ...
CBC News reported that an Edmonton, Canada university was the victim of a $11.8 million CEO fraud attack after staff failed to call one of its vendors to verify whether emails requesting ...
The FBI calls CEO Fraud "Business Email Compromise" (BEC) and it has become a highly lucrative threat vector for attackers. According to IC3, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, ...
Our friends at Mimecast are warning against something scary! This is a sobering example of why scanners and filters will always be behind in the security arms race... They wrote: "Most ...
Cisco's midyear report released this week showed that CEO Fraud netted cybercrime five times more money than ransomware over the last three years. The surprising highlight of Cisco's ...
And victims aren't reporting ransomware attacks... Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss (CEO Fraud) were among the most damaging and expensive ...
Mail Tribune reported that Southern Oregon University is just the latest victim of CEO fraud (which the FBI calls Business Email Compromise or BEC) after hackers tricked university ...
