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Concerned About Business Email Compromise? 4 Technologies That Can Help

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Understanding the scope and impact of BEC is critical for any business that wants to protect itself from this insidious threat ...
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Microsoft Defender Brings Automated Attack Disruption to Endpoints

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Microsoft’s Defender for Endpoint can now stop ransomware and other human-operated cyberattacks by automatically isolating a compromised device to keep the bad actors from being able to move laterally through a targeted ...
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5 Tips to Thwart Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks

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There’s been an astounding 84% increase in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to the latest NordLocker Email Threat Report, which compared half-yearly statistics. The news should be particularly alarming to organizations ...
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Expel Report Surfaces High Percentage of BEC Attacks

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A report from managed security operations center (SOC) provider Expel found a spike in business email compromise (BEC) attacks involving Microsoft Office 365 (O365) in the first quarter of 2022. Well over ...
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Authorities Arrest ‘Prominent’ Nigerian BEC Threat Actor

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No doubt remote work has tilled fertile ground for miscreants bent on executing business email compromise (BEC) scams, which is why it’s good news that authorities have one operator—from Nigeria—in custody. As ...
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Companies Failing to Protect Domain Registrations

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Despite a surge in dangerous third-party domain registrations, domain security is an underused security tactic that can help curb phishing and related ransomware attacks, according to the CSC’s Domain Security Report focused ...
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