In this real-world example of an attack on a Fortune 100 company, the attacker impersonates a vendor to trick an unsuspecting employee into transferring $753,000 to a new bank account.

The customer’s legacy email security solution marked the attack as a legitimate email, as it was only looking for known-bad indicators of compromise such as domain reputation, malicious links, and malicious attachments. To bypass the legacy solution, the attack instead used a text-based email and social engineering tactics to exploit human behavior.

Abnormal uses behavioral AI to block business email compromise attacks, supply chain fraud, ransomware, spam, and everything in between. The API-based solution directly integrates with your cloud email platform, where it instantly begins baselining known good behavior and detecting anomalies.

By understanding what is normal, Abnormal can block the malicious and unwanted emails that are text-based, lack attack signatures, and originate from the inside of your company—all of which bypass legacy SEGs and cloud email providers.