Nanonets

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a cyber threat that exploits the vulnerabilities of email communication. In business operations, BEC is often used to manipulate individuals within an organization for financial fraud or unauthorized access to sensitive information. What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

As noted in a report by FireEye, the bad guys are continuing to leverage a tactic known as business email compromise (BEC), where that method of communication seeks to impersonate persons of authority from within a firm, or alternatively, legitimate business partners, to requests funds be sent to accounts (and then of course, pilfered).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC) scams continue to ravage company coffers. Just last week, IBM cybersecurity experts uncovered a widespread BEC attack targeting players in the coronavirus vaccine supply chain. But the BEC scam is not the only kind of business payments fraud plaguing firms today.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Thus, business email compromise fraud (BEC) is evolving too. As reported in darkreading.com, the gangs using BEC – new gangs and seasoned gangs – have recently been targeting human resource and finance professionals to grab direct deposit payroll information to siphon off funds.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

They are getting into an administration system, finding lists of client credentials and then installing [Sodinokibi] on all the clients’ systems.”. “The threat actors realized they can amplify their impact by targeting specific companies such as managed service providers,” said Bennett.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

In this week’s Data Digest, PYMNTS rounds up the latest cases and research into how corporates are being targeted with crimes like the business email compromise (BEC) scam, as well as how they’re fighting back. When it comes to fraud threats, no company — large or small — is immune.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

An unidentified group is reportedly putting much effort into a complicated scam to steal the login credentials of government personnel. The victim is then offered a choice of logging in through email credentials from providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Anomali, a security firm, says it has found bogus websites of the U.S.,

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. The most damaging form of BEC is account takeover (ATO) attacks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of a successful attack aren’t isolated to its target. The BEC scam can manifest in many forms. Beyond The BEC. The BEC can happen to anyone — to any company using email,” explained Sadler.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Meanwhile, instances of the Business Email Compromise (BEC) are also on the rise: About 47 percent of all incidents examined last year were the result of a hack or malware — and, of those, about half were BEC scams. Through the spear phishing campaign, an unwilling employee inputs those credentials for the criminal.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

That’s especially important as criminals seek to use eCommerce to commit what might be termed “authorized fraud” as bad actors get hold of card details or log-in credentials, pose as legitimate account holders and send payments. Authorized fraud also encompasses business email compromise (BEC) scams, too, said Tharle.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s a twist on the business email compromise (BEC) scam that typically involves scammers emailing business owners and seeking payment via wire transfer, ACH or paper check. “No legitimate business or utility will call you and ask you to make a payment using a Green Dot card,” AG Frosh said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

Business email compromise (BEC), B2B phishing scams, synthetic identities, fake accounts and trillions of aid dollars flooding out at a time of maximum uncertainty make this a fraudster’s paradise. COVID-19 has afforded internet villains what will certainly go down as the greatest cybertheft opportunity of their shadowy lifetimes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Radial found a 200 percent rise in Q1 of credit card testing—when stolen payment card credentials are ‘tested’ with small, innocuous buys before cybercrooks move on to larger fraudulent purchases. Regular risk and compliance assessments are not enough for today’s clever fraudsters,” Graff said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

The attacks are targeted ones, said Arruda, who noted that hackers don’t usually directly try to hack banks or credit unions, but instead try to get access through the aforementioned email campaigns, where the credentials are stolen and the stolen credentials are leveraged to gain access to the FI.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The malware was used to lift banking credentials, financial data and personal information from victims, and for deploying ransomware. As reported by Wired, the malware, tied to malicious links, would use keyloggers to access passwords or would create “fake banking pages” that induced victims to enter credentials.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The malware was used to lift banking credentials, financial data and personal information from victims, and for deploying ransomware. As reported by Wired, the malware, tied to malicious links, would use keyloggers to access passwords or would create “fake banking pages” that induced victims to enter credentials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Furthermore, the company said the most typical attack techniques that nation-state actors used in the past year were credential harvesting, reconnaissance, virtual private network (VPN) exploits and malware. The first half of this year had a 35 percent rise in overall attack volume in contrast to the latter half of last year.

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

When the victim enters their credentials, the attacker captures these details and may steal session cookies to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA). These schemes typically involve: Phishing emails : Crafted to trick users into sharing login credentials. AI-generated messages: Mimicking legitimate communication to deceive users.

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