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DECEMBER 6, 2016

KnowBe4 , a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform provider, launched a new tool designed to help IT managers combat CEO fraud, or Business Email Compromise (BEC) as it is referred to by the FBI. The phishing tool uses simulated attacks to test users and tracks how they reply.

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JULY 30, 2018

A phishing scam making the rounds and targeting businesses is using the Square name to fool its targets. Last year, small business accounting company MYOB had its name used by phishing scammers who targeted small businesses. While there are several versions of the email, they all include the Square logo, according to reports.

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JULY 1, 2019

As noted in a report by FireEye, the bad guys are continuing to leverage a tactic known as business email compromise (BEC), where that method of communication seeks to impersonate persons of authority from within a firm, or alternatively, legitimate business partners, to requests funds be sent to accounts (and then of course, pilfered).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

To that end, phishing attacks, more commonly known as business email compromises (BECs), have been aimed at Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) officials at credit unions. Department of the Treasury ’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has known about the BEC, and has cautioned against opening such phishing emails.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Thus, business email compromise fraud (BEC) is evolving too. As reported in darkreading.com, the gangs using BEC – new gangs and seasoned gangs – have recently been targeting human resource and finance professionals to grab direct deposit payroll information to siphon off funds.

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Payments Source

JUNE 28, 2018

Payments fraud from business email compromise, or BEC, occurs when scammers use phishing tricks and email to fool businesses into making fraudulent payments to perceived suppliers. Experts suggest newer factors are accelerating the trend.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC) scams continue to ravage company coffers. Just last week, IBM cybersecurity experts uncovered a widespread BEC attack targeting players in the coronavirus vaccine supply chain. But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In a new report from ProofPoint , researchers warned that any businesses with the word “tax” in its domain is at risk of being spoofed by phishing attackers targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). 75,000 is the average loss of a BEC scam , new data from the FBI has revealed. Tax season is upon U.S.

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MAY 1, 2017

Phishing attacks can happen to even the most vigilant among us. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

. $80,000 is now the average amount phishers demand from their business email compromise targets , according to new research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in its second-quarter 2020 Phishing Activity Trends Report. The average sought in a BEC scam is up from $54,000 in the first quarter of the year. $1

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Information on phishing email or BEC scam campaigns, for instance, can be shared to help small businesses protect themselves before an attack occurs. 20 percent of Business Email Compromise scams request payroll diversions new data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed in a report published last week.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Meanwhile, instances of the Business Email Compromise (BEC) are also on the rise: About 47 percent of all incidents examined last year were the result of a hack or malware — and, of those, about half were BEC scams. Through the spear phishing campaign, an unwilling employee inputs those credentials for the criminal.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

The attacker’s post-compromise activity leverages multiple techniques to evade detection and obscure their activity, but these efforts also offer some opportunities for detection,” FireEye said, adding that the campaign was widespread and “affecting public and private organizations around the world.”.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC), B2B phishing scams, synthetic identities, fake accounts and trillions of aid dollars flooding out at a time of maximum uncertainty make this a fraudster’s paradise.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In other corporate fraud news , phishing defense firm Agari has concluded an investigation on one of the largest fraud perpetrators in a long time: Exaggerated Lion. If a CFO had accounting experience, though, as opposed to banking or finance, they were more likely to blow the whistle, the study found.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to cybersecurity experts, email scams rise during the holidays, with business email compromise (BEC) an especially concerning scam. The FBI also noted that this scam can often be coupled with other types of fraud, sometimes coming in the form of BEC in which a scammer requests a wire transfer or other payment be made.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently issued a warning that fraudsters are leveraging various illicit methods, including malware, phishing schemes, extortion and business email compromise (BEC) scams, all with a COVID-19 twist.

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MAY 2, 2017

In other news of note from the Facebook space, it recently came to light that the social media giant, along with Google, were the heretofore unnamed victims of a combined $100 million phishing attack earlier this year. Research from Proofpoint found a 45 percent spike in BEC attacks in the last quarter of 2016 compared to Q3.

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MARCH 6, 2020

In addition to providing cybersecurity services, the company’s technology could prove important for businesses and governments facing a surging threat of Business Email Compromise (BEC) and other social engineering and phishing scams flowing in via their email platforms. Chqbook.com.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently issued a warning that fraudsters are leveraging various illicit methods, including malware, phishing schemes, extortion and business email compromise (BEC) scams — all with a COVID-19 twist.

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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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OCTOBER 17, 2018

The SEC’s investigations focused on “business email compromises” (BECs), where criminals posed as company executives or vendors and used emails to trick employees into sending large sums to fraudulent bank accounts.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Citing 2018 data from Verizon, Mastercard noted research that suggested the majority of cyberattacks are actually targeted at SMBs, ranging from phishing scams and the Business Email Compromise (BEC) to malware and ransomware attacks. In a press release on Tuesday (Feb.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Issues like phishing and the Business Email Compromise (BEC) are top concerns, yet ransomware cannot be ignored as a destructive force. Nearly half of the small businesses surveyed by Hiscox last year said they had been targeted by at least one cyberattack, while 44 percent said they were hit by between two and four attacks.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s a twist on the business email compromise (BEC) scam that typically involves scammers emailing business owners and seeking payment via wire transfer, ACH or paper check. “No legitimate business or utility will call you and ask you to make a payment using a Green Dot card,” AG Frosh said in a statement.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Those threats are vast, but Womply’s own research has found that most of these attacks are in the form of phishing and business email compromise (BEC) scams. On the other side of this coin is the cybersecurity threats that inevitably come with establishing a digital presence of any kind. ”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

40 legitimate email accounts of company executives have been compromised in a phishing campaign targeting businesses , according to Gov Info Security reports. The scam involves sending a phishing email claiming to be a Microsoft Office 365 update.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

This week's B2B Data Digest looks at the rising threat of the business email compromise (BEC) scam and invoice fraud on companies of all sizes in the U.S., 389 percent more BEC scams hit U.S. businesses between Q1 and Q2, per new Abnormal Security research revealed in its Quarterly BEC Report for Q2 2020.

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JULY 5, 2019

BEC: Fraudsters are leveraging variants in business email compromise (BEC) fraud, finding new ways to siphon off money from corporates. FireEye finds that there was a 26 percent boost quarter over quarter in malicious emails that sought to bring users to phishing sites and spoofed major brands.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Spoofed phishing site domains are hosted in Turkey and Romania. In separate news, researchers at Agari were warning of Silent Starling, the newest cybercriminal ring using a vendor email compromise (VEC) scam to purloin company cash from supply chains per news in October. The campaign is currently dormant.” .

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PYMNTS

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. Doing so gives it the attack volume of a mass spam campaign, but with the target-specific customization of spear-phishing attacks.”

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

However, as an unprecedented portion of the workforce has been relegated to working from home, IT teams have faced new challenges, from less than optimal at-home network security to more targeted business email compromise schemes. New variations of BEC have emerged during the pandemic. Source: Abnormal Security.

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