PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

companies via the Business Email Compromise scam, reports in The East African said last week. The FBI has been vocal in recent years about the growing threat and subsequent damages linked to the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam, which targets accounts payable departments in an attempt to steal company cash.

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. Reported losses in 2020 exceeded $4.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and industry leaders are zeroing in on some of the most vulnerable targets of cyber scams: small businesses. Information on phishing email or BEC scam campaigns, for instance, can be shared to help small businesses protect themselves before an attack occurs.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the pandemic accelerating a surge in eCommerce volumes, online fraud threats are at their peak, and everything from chargeback fraud to online product scams are dampening the holiday spirit. According to cybersecurity experts, email scams rise during the holidays, with business email compromise (BEC) an especially concerning scam.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

However, in the past month alone, PYMNTS Bitcoin Daily has reported on nearly a dozen different scams and schemes involving bitcoin or other cybercurrencies. The Pandemic Is Making Scams Worse . For example, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently filed a complaint in a Texas U.S.

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PYMNTS

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

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PYMNTS

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. Both companies identified themselves as victims in the scam. federal prosecutors. In a statement on Thursday, U.S.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Security experts have advised individuals to be extra vigilant during the busy holiday shopping season, and also warned corporate users working remotely to be aware of a rise in business email compromise (BEC) scams that target players in the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The scam entails a scammer posing as a legitimate business partner or vendor, claiming over the phone that the SMB owes them money, then demanding payment in the form of a Green Dot card. “This is a scam, pure and simple. “This is a scam, pure and simple.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

In a case that highlights how anybody — truly, anybody — can be a victim of invoice fraud, federal officials have reportedly charged two brothers in New York State for an alleged $19 million scam targeting Amazon. Attorney Audrey Strauss described the scam as "a new twist on an old trick" through the use of "complex technology.".

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

An unidentified group is reportedly putting much effort into a complicated scam to steal the login credentials of government personnel. The scam begins when a company gets a bogus invitation via email to place a bid on a government contract. Spoofed phishing site domains are hosted in Turkey and Romania.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC), where attackers impersonate a corporate email address to fraudulently redirect funds, continues to be one of the most common forms of cyberattacks and takes on several forms. New variations of BEC have emerged during the pandemic. Source: Abnormal Security.

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