Business email compromise (BEC) is a sophisticated type of phishing that uses social engineering and deception to obtain access to sensitive accounts, networks, and data. In these attacks, bad actors pose as organization executives to request funds transfers from other members of the organization. Playing on the trust that employees place in executives, this scam demands that the attacker gather information about the structure of the organization and the individual they plan to impersonate. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently published a public service announcement…
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