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MARCH 27, 2017

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. billion | Total amount stolen via BEC attacks since 2013. Here are the numbers: $100 million | Amount of money stolen from hacker.

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JUNE 15, 2016

The scam is also known as the Business Email Compromise and typically only goes after businesses, rather than consumers. Billion | The amount hackers have attempted to steal from businesses using wire fraud between October 2013-May 2016. and foreign victims between October 2013-May 2016.

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MAY 8, 2017

In a warning to businesses covered by Reuters , the FBI said bad guys used email and pretended to be from real businesses to try and steal $5.3 billion from October of 2013 through December of 2016. The schemes are known as business email compromises. In a previous report, the FBI had said thieves tried to steal $3.1

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Unlike traditional [business email compromise (BEC)] attacks, which are starting to raise red flags with financial institutions, payroll diversion attacks eliminate the interaction with banks because it is a direct deposit instead of a wire transfer,” said Crane Hassold, senior director of threat research at the firm.

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

billion has been lost to the Business Email Compromise scam between 2013 and 2018 , data analyzed by cybersecurity firm Agari, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Complaint Center, revealed.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the biggest problems with wire, particularly in the B2B payments space, is its target for fraud, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says instances of business wire fraud, commonly referred to as the business email compromise, are climbing. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3 counterparts are not available.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Business Email Compromise scams continue to grow and steal more corporate money than ever before. Phishing emails — 93 percent of which include ransomware, according to ITProPortal — should by no means be ignored. Bank Trojans with mining capabilities were first noticed in 2013.

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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). Carlsson noted earlier research released by the AFP for its analysis of the use of electronic payments among corporates.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Cybercrime involving email scams are on the rise, as businesses and their AP officials receive these fraudulent emails that seemingly request legitimate money transfers by posing as a corporate executive or a supplier requesting payment. The business email compromise has created more than 22,000 cases in the U.S.

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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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MAY 12, 2017

FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016. From October 2013 through December 2016, a new report from the FBI suggests cybercriminals used business email compromise (BEC) scams to try and steal some $5.3 Analysts say these strategies comprised some 63 percent of the cybersecurity threats that hit SMEs in 2016.

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JUNE 23, 2016

For some, like small suppliers, a compromise of sensitive data and credentials can lead to a few hundred or thousand dollars fraudulently obtained from a business client, often via the Business Email Compromise scam. ” He took the 2013 Target data breach as an example. 2013, resulting in $3.1

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) released its 2016 Electronic Payments Survey earlier this year and found that use of paper checks in B2B payments actually rose 1 percent compared to 2013 levels. About 44 percent of payments received are in the form of a paper check too, the report noted.

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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. 2013 and Feb. 2016, according to the FBI. The cost of such attacks?

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Business email compromise has come to high school sports. Department of the Treasury, has estimated in recent weeks that fraudsters have tried to scam as much as $9 billion through business e-mail compromise attempts since 2016. As reported this past week by Fox 5 in Washington, D.C.,

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

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. The emails try to get the victims to send money to accounts – and the money, of course, is likely to disappear forever. “It

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