Business Email Compromise
Business email compromise (BEC) is no joke, and it continues to increase—despite increased awareness of the issue. Learn about the future of BEC attacks in this on-demand webinar.
Threat actors have shifted their strategy—moving away from internal impersonation and instead focusing on impersonating third parties. Watch the webinar to learn more about this new threat: financial supply chain compromise.
For years, executives were the go-to impersonated party in business email compromise attacks. Now, threat actors are opting to impersonate vendors and suppliers instead.
Colonial Pipeline. CNA Financial. Quanta. Even the NBA. Hardly a week goes by without a ransomware story hitting the news, as organizations worldwide are targeted by an attack. But are there more dangerous threats out there?
From June-December 2021, Abnormal Security discovered that nearly all types of advanced email attacks grew in frequency, with a new trend of phone fraud using email as the first contact.
Rachel Tobac talked to Abnormal Security's CISO Mike Britton about hacking, social engineering attacks, and how to protect your organization.
Adversaries are increasingly targeting the enterprise email inbox, and security teams need to look further than just spam and phishing attacks.
CISOs deal with a multitude of threats that can have significant financial and reputational impacts. Of those threats, business email compromise is the #1 attack type, costing businesses almost as much as all other cybersecurity incidents combined.
Traditional cybersecurity infrastructure can’t stop new and emerging threats, particularly in the email channel, and cybercriminals are constantly changing their methods to stay one step ahead. Hear how Theresa Payton, first female White House CIO, thinks about these attacks.
Attackers are leveraging social engineering to drive significantly higher engagement and account takeover. In the Q2 2021 threat report, Abnormal found that attacks are growing at significant rates, as threat actors leverage social engineering strategies to bypass SEGs and drive engagement.
Business email compromise (BEC) is the most significant cybersecurity threat to enterprise organizations, with $2.4 billion lost in 2021 alone. This type of email attack occurs when a cybercriminal uses social engineering to impersonate a trusted contact—typically an executive, coworker, vendor, or partner.