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A new threat group called Crimson Kingsnake is impersonating real law companies and debt recovery services to intimidate businessess into paying bogus overdue invoices.

Double-check demand payment emails from law firms: Convincing fakes surface

Researchers have identified a new business email compromise (BEC) group that has been impersonating legitimate attorneys, law firms and debt recovery services in order to trick accounting employees into paying fake invoices.

UK-Based Threat Actors Impersonate Global Law Firms in BEC Attacks

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Cybersecurity researchers have spotted crooks impersonating major law firm powerhouses to try and trick people into making payments for bogus work.

These devious cybercriminals impersonate law firms to steal your data

Popular international law firms including Deloitte, Monlex International, Dentons, and Sullivan & Cromwell have been impersonated by business email compromise group Crimson Kingsnake in "blind BEC attacks," which were initially detected in March, reports BleepingComputer.

International law firms spoofed in Crimson Kingsnake BEC campaign

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While the administration may look to strengthen security against cyberattackers for cloud providers, like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, experts say the onus is on the customer.

The Biden administration may eye CSPs to improve security, but the real caveat emptor? Secure thyself

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Despite sophisticating email threats, many organizations still rely on traditional methods of email security, primarily secure email gateway (SEG) solutions that have failed to keep up with cyber criminals as they have evolved their tactics. While traditional controls are still effective at blocking commodity types of attacks, they simply cannot detect and block the sophisticated and modern attacks that were seeing more of today.

Emerging attacks leaving SEGs in the dust

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It was shortly after the pandemic struck in March 2020 when Alamada-Contra Costa Transit District realized they had a problem. This is how it happened, said Tas Jalali, AC Transits head of cybersecurity, in an interview with Industry Insider  California. I was hired in late 2019, early 2020 to build the cybersecurity practice. At that point, AC Transit was running a traditional security email gateway. I do not want to mention the vendor, but it was not effective; there were a lot of challenges with it.

Transit Agency Faced Growing Problem, Chose Abnormal Solution

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Pig butchering is a repulsively named, rising investment scam that uses a potent mix of the promise of romance and the lure of making easy cryptocurrency millions against its unsuspecting targets.

Pig Butchering & Investment Scams: The $3B Cybercrime Threat Overtaking BEC

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More than half of the startups named on Forbes' newest 500-company list of the "Best Startup Employers" in America, including Abnormal Security, are based in the Bay Area.

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Women make up about 24% of the cybersecurity workforce. While the disparity between the number men and women in our industry is shrinking in quantity, it is not in terms of equity. The theme of 2023's International Women's Day is #EmbraceEquity  "For International Women's Day and beyond, let's all fully #EmbraceEquity.

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Americas Best Startup Employers 2023 was compiled by evaluating 2,600 U.S.-based businesses with at least 50 employees based on three criteria: employer reputation, employee satisfaction and growth. The final list ranks 500 employers.

America’s Best Startup Employers

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From high-profile leaders such as OpenAI, DeepMind, and Nvidia to specialists like Signifyd and Voxel, these companies are applying AIs transformative power to an array of tasks.

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In this Help Net Security video, Crane Hassold, Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, provides insight into the impact of multilingual BEC attacks. They significantly impact global companies that operate in multiple regions and communicate with partners, suppliers, and customers in different languages.

Expert strategies for defending against multilingual email-based attacks

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Recommendations include using AI-based email security solutions that can detect communication patterns and conversational-style anomalies.

Abnormal Security Named as a Representative Vendor in 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Email Security

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Email security is often overlooked on a macro level, even as business email compromise (BEC) attacks continue to pose a critical threat to business operations. Reports from Abnormal Security and At-Bay revealed the extent of the riskAbnormals report revealed the median open rate for text-based BEC attacks was nearly 28%.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Persist

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Mike Britton, CISO for Abnormal Security, brings guest customer Joel Godbout, Cybersecurity Manager at PCL Construction, to discuss Securing Your Cloud Email Platform from Socially-Engineered Attacks.

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Abnormal’s latest report on business email compromise trends and statistics finds that employees open 28% of attacks and reply to 15% of them.

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