With Valentine’s Day celebrated around the world, today is a day full of love and joy—especially for those in committed relationships. People around the globe are celebrating their relationships by sending flowers and chocolates, enjoying fancy dinners, and writing love notes in greeting cards. Unfortunately, not all relationships are legitimate, and not everyone sees today as a celebration of love.
Within Fortra's Threat Intelligence service, we regularly engage with BEC threat actors using active
Business email compromise (BEC) fraud is a lucrative venture, and now that industry is expanding in a troubling way—by lowering the barrier to entry so that anyone with a couple hundred bucks can outsource a BEC attack. BEC criminals are organized, behaving in many ways like legitimate businesses.
Mergers and acquisitions can build your company's value overnight, but business email compromise (BEC) and data breaches can tear it down just as quickly.
Human resources departments are the epitome of task ownership, carefully and efficiently connecting an organization’s needs with that of its employees. Employees in HR are tasked with recruitment, onboarding, and employee relations, and oftentimes handle payroll and benefits. Because of their wide reach, threat actors are now turning their attention to this organizational pipeline as they continue to evolve their employee-to-employee attack vectors.
Osterman Research has released a new industry report warning that many organizations will likely need to augment their Microsoft Office 365 implementations with best-in-class, third-party solutions—especially when it comes to advanced email threat protection.
Our recent report on London Blue, the cybercrime network that has amassed a list of 50,000 finance executives targeted for upcoming business email compromise (BEC) scams was alarming. But what makes it worse is that London Blue is not the only group of sophisticated cybercriminals out there.
Marriott Hotels, Dunkin Donuts, even the House GOP. During the final quarter of 2018, a host of high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks have made major headlines.
Some stemmed from business email compromise (BEC) scams, spear phishing campaigns, or other advanced email threats. Others are expected to help fuel such attacks in the future. A few might see somebody fight back through innovative, active defense measures.
By the end of this year, 77% of all enterprises will have moved at least some of their operations into the cloud—including email. At the same time, we're seeing that fraudsters have been doing some modernizing of their own.