All posts in BEC
22 Jul, 2021
Apple, BEC, bust, Hacking, Law & order, Naked Security Podcast, Patching, podcast, Print Nightmare, Ransomware, Security News, Vulnerability
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by Paul Ducklin [00’38”] Learning from computer virus history. [02’26”] The PrintNightmare saga continues. [05’27”] Apple puts out a patch, but doesn’t say why. [08’12”] Snitch on a crook and earn $10 million. [17’50”] Scammars do grammer and speeling correctly. [25’12”] And the Business Email Compromise that wasn’t. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. . . . Read more

Co-authored by Juan Badell and Russell Petrich As two people for whom creating phishing emails constitutes legitimate employment (we are on the product team behind the Sophos Phish Threat phishing simulation service) we know we’re in the minority. Like our not-so-lawful counterparts, we spend our days using social engineering techniques . . . Read more
25 Nov, 2020
arrests, BEC, BEC attacks, Business Email Compromise, cybercriminals, global attacks, Government, interpol, Malware, Nigeria, Scam, Security News, social engineering, Web Security
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Some 50,000 targeted victims have been identified so far in a massive, global scam enterprise that involves 26 different malwares. Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise (BEC) ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted . . . Read more
18 Nov, 2020
Android, BEC, botnet, cybercrime, Data loss, Linux, machine learning, Malware, Phishing, Ransomware, Security News, Threat Report, Windows
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Here’s the latest Sophos Threat Report – learn what cybercriminals are up to on Windows, Linux, Android and more
30 Oct, 2020
BEC, Business Email Compromise, cyberattack, Cyberattacks, cybercriminal, Election, election security, Fraud, Hacks, hats, maga, MAGA hat invoices, MAGA hat vendors, Phishing, politics, presidential election, Security News, Trump campaign, Web Security, Wisconsin GOP, Wisconsin Republicans
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Scammers bilked Wisconsin Republicans out of $2.3 million in a basic BEC scam — and anyone working on the upcoming election needs to pay attention. The Wisconsin Republican party’s war chest is lighter by $2.3 million after scammers posing as MAGA-hat vendors were able to spoof invoices in what . . . Read more
19 Oct, 2020
arrested, BEC, big wizza, Business Email Compromise, CARES Act, EDD, Fontrell Antonio Baines, Fraud, Government, Identity theft, Nuke Bizzle, Pandemic Unemployment insurance, Phishing, phishing scam, Privacy, PUA, scattered canary, Security News, tax data, Tax Fraud, Web Security
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14 Oct, 2020
2020 losses, ACID, Agari, average wire transfer, BEC, BEC attacks, Business Email Compromise, cybercriminals, global attacks, money mules, Most Recent ThreatLists, Nigera, Scam, Security News, social engineering, Web Security
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by David Mitchell David Mitchell, Senior Director of Email Product Management at Sophos, shares his top tips to optimize workplace email security. How many work emails have you sent and received today? Despite the rise of workplace chat and instant messaging apps, for many of us email continues to dominate . . . Read more
02 Sep, 2020
Anti-Phishing Working Group, APWG, average transaction amounts, BEC, Business Email Compromise, cosmic lynx, gift cards, Hacks, Most Recent ThreatLists, Phishing, q2 2020, Security News, the report, Web Security
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by Paul Ducklin Here’s a phishing email we received recently that ticks all the cybercriminal trick-to-click boxes. From BEC, through cloud storage to an innocent-sounding One Note document, right into harm’s way. Instead of simply spamming out a clickable link to as many people as possible, the crooks used more . . . Read more