BEC scams

The number of exploit kit attacks is, slowly but surely, going down, and malware peddlers are turning towards more reliable tactics such as spam, phishing, and targeting …

96 percent of organizations have received business email compromise (BEC) emails during the second half of 2017, according to Agari. “BEC is a particularly effective attack …

Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been on the rise for the last few years, and no industry is safe from these scammers. It has been revealed last week that art …

BEC scammers are targeting art galleries, collectors and artists, swindling them out of money and, on occasion, ruining their businesses. According to The Art Newspaper, nine …

MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, is the latest confirmed victim of scammers. “On Wednesday, August 23, MacEwan University discovered it had been the victim of a …

Office 365, Microsoft’s software-as-a-service productivity software suite popular with corporate users, is increasingly becoming attackers’ preferred way into …

Phishing and spear-phishing emails are a constant threat to all users, but enterprises are positively inundated with them. “Most businesses will use a spam filter and …

Through its website, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) accepts complaints about Internet-facilitated criminal activity, and forwards them to the …

If often happens to less prominent individuals, but this time it happened to a US State Supreme Court judge: scammers have managed trick her into wiring the money meant for …

Malicious email attachment message volume spikes more than 38% on Thursdays over the average weekday volume. Ransomware attackers in particular favor sending malicious …

With over 1,200 breaches and over 3.4 billion records exposed, 2017 is already on pace to be yet another “worst year on record” for data breach activity, according to Risk …

Just as it is the default tool for most businesses, email’s capacity for rapid, mass communication has made it a favourite instrument of criminals. As a result, malicious …