The old adage of people being the weakest link in security is especially true when it comes to email threats. Here, cybercriminals can arguable generate their biggest “bang for the buck” by socially ...
Mike is just like any other eager new employee when he receives an urgent email from his boss. In the email, she explains that she's at dinner with an important client and forgot her corporate credit ...
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is often described in the media as merely an email scam, but in reality, it’s part of an organized broad operation. The email itself is only one part of the attack ...
In an increasingly digital world, the rise in cybercrime involving email scams has become a significant threat to individuals and organizations alike. These sophisticated attacks exploit human ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Business email compromise (BEC) scams are online payment ...
Business email compromise (a.k.a. CEO fraud) is the highest-grossing type of cybercrime, according to the FBI’s IC3 Internet Crime Report 2021. More than a third of all cybercrime losses can be ...
Business email compromise (BEC) scams are some of the most potent threats to cybersecurity around the globe — and the threat is not letting up anytime soon. While ransomware attacks often grab the ...
The July edition of Beazley Breach Insights found that business email compromise has been rising steadily. What is behind this trend? Is business email compromise more of a social engineering problem ...