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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The findings came from a survey of 2,000 individuals between 2013 to 2018. In examples of the ill-famed business email compromise ( BEC ) scams that seem to make frequent headlines, $1 million was transferred from the Save the Children Foundation. billion has been stolen via BEC from October 2013 to May 2018.

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MAY 12, 2017

. …………… Here are other top cybersecurity stories that made headlines this past week: One Million Gmail Users Affected By Google Docs Phishing Scam. percent of total users) were affected by an email phishing scam. Late last week, approximately one million Gmail users (or about 0.1 billion across organizations.

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MAY 2, 2017

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for a $100 million business email compromise scam. The DoJ alleges that the man, Evaldas Rimašauskas, used a business email compromise (BEC) scam to trick Facebook and Google into paying fake invoices, impersonating manufacturer Quanta Computer.

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MARCH 27, 2017

billion | Total amount stolen via BEC attacks since 2013. Here are the numbers: $100 million | Amount of money stolen from hacker. businesses hacked in this case. 45 percent | Increase of business email compromise attacks in Q4 2016. 45,000 | Number of email attacks examined by just Proofpoint between July and December 2016.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Last year the AFP marked an unexpected reversal in the decline of the use of checks in B2B transactions, inching up 1 percent to 51 percent last year compared to 2013 levels (that survey is conducted every three years). But there are other ways the AFP found businesses are exposed to payments fraud, most notably through the BEC scam.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

A Lithuanian man who scammed Facebook and Google into sending him hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to five years in prison, according to published reports Thursday (Dec. According to people familiar with the case, the scheme managed to nab roughly $23 million from Google in 2013 and around $98 million from Facebook in 2015.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion via business wire fraud between October 2013 and December 2016, the FBI calculated. Earlier this year, the FBI said the value of successful BEC scams has now surpassed $12 billion. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

When it comes to cyberattacks, there is one kind that Rojas believes cybercriminals will use to perpetuate fraud, regardless of speed of transaction, the payments system or type of technology: the Business Email Compromise (BEC) — popularly known as CEO fraud. A total of 17,642 reports of BEC were reported to authorities between Oct.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

The BBC reports that beloved JK Rowling – she of “Harry Potter” fame and fortune – has been at the center of a credit card scam. The scope of the scam comes courtesy of cyber threat detection firm Agari, which has said the group, London Blue, seeks to ply its trade through the business email compromise (BEC) effort.

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