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

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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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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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Large-Scale Phishing Campaign Bypasses MFA

13

Jul

2022

Microsoft researchers have uncovered a massive phishing campaign that can steal credentials even if a user has multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled and has so far attempted to compromise more than 10,000 organizations. The campaign, which has been active since September 2021, depends upon the use of adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites in the initial attacks to […]

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