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What makes small and medium-sized businesses vulnerable to BEC attacks

25

Jan

2023

According to the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) accounted for almost a third of the country’s $6.9 billion in cyber losses that year – around $2.4 billion. In surprisingly sharp contrast, ransomware attacks accounted for only $50 million of those losses. In this Help Net Security video, Dror Liwer, Co-Founder of […]

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Mailchimp Suffers Another Security Breach Compromising Some Customers’ Information

19

Jan

2023

Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers. “The unauthorized actor conducted a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, and obtained access to select Mailchimp accounts using employee credentials […]

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US Food Companies Warned of BEC Attacks Stealing Food Product Shipments

16

Dec

2022

Typically used to steal money, BEC involves threat actors compromising email accounts at target companies and then targeting employees in charge of making payments with fraudulent emails that instruct them to wire transfer large amounts of money to bank accounts controlled by the attackers. In the attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector, however, the […]

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What makes small and medium-sized businesses vulnerable to BEC attacks

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