“We detected a recent spike in business email compromise (BEC) attacks soliciting gift cards primarily targeting K-12 school teachers. Attackers impersonate colleagues or school officials to ask recipients to purchase various gift cards,” Microsoft Security Intelligence warned. The attackers create fake email accounts impersonating K-12 school personnel. The accounts are created based on publicly available […]
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Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) have fundamentally changed the email security landscape in recent years, but it can often be hard to determine what makes one system different than the next. In reality, under that umbrella term significant differences exist in approaches that may determine whether the technology provides genuine protection or simply a perceived […]
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Cybercriminals are exploiting the mass shift to telework during the COVID-19 pandemic to conduct malicious operations, including BEC scams that are more likely to succeed due to the targeting of an email rule forwarding vulnerability. In 2019, BEC losses surpassed $1.7 billion, the FBI said in February 2020. According to the FBI, the attackers are […]
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