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New BEC Campaign Targets Financial Companies
An unknown attack group has been running a phishing and BEC campaign against a variety of banking and financial services ...
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DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth
In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold ...
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BEC attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks
New BEC cyberattacks use phishing with a legitimate Dropbox link as a lure for malware and credentials theft. Image: Adobe ...
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New cybersecurity BEC attack mimics vendors
Image: RareStock/Adobe Stock Financial supply chain compromises, a subcategory of BECs, appear to be ascendant and highly effective. Abnormal Security ...
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US Food Companies Warned of BEC Attacks Stealing Food Product Shipments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US ...
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UK-Based Threat Actors Impersonate Global Law Firms in BEC Attacks
Researchers have identified a new business email compromise (BEC) group that has been impersonating legitimate attorneys, law firms and debt ...
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Secure Corporate Emails with Intent-Based BEC Detection
Image: Adobe Stock In a business email compromise, generally, the attacker uses emails and social engineering techniques to have one ...
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BEC Actors Diverge From Traditional Attacks
Business email compromise (BEC) attackers are more frequently impersonating third-party vendors and suppliers in order to trick unwitting victims to ...
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Interpol Arrests Alleged Head of BEC Cybercrime Syndicate
Interpol, in coordination with the Nigerian police Force and several private-sector partners, has arrested a 37-year-old unnamed man in Nigeria ...
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