BEC scams
Cyber Fraud Cost Americans $17 Billion in 2025, AI Scams Make List: FBI
Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling ...
Tax Season is Upon Us, and So Are the Scammers
It’s still relatively early in the year, but bad actors are already targeting accounting and finance organizations as well as filers in the United States with tax-related scams. Researchers at cybersecurity company ...
Business Email Compromise Scams
This month we discuss Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. What are they, how to identify them, and why BEC scams have created over $1.8 billion worth of losses to businesses last year ...
Targeted Attacks Part 1 – OSINT and Reconnaissance
In our August monthly episode we start our three part series on targeted attacks. In this episode we focus on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and reconnaissance techniques used by attackers in phishing ...
Contact Tracing Apps, Business Email Compromise Scams, SPAM Phone Calls
In episode 116 for April 13th 2020: Privacy concerns with COVID-19 contact tracing apps, the FBI’s new warnings about business email compromise scams, and how to prevent unwanted and SPAM phone calls ...
How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time
The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware ...
