FACC, realizing that they were tricked, adopted countermeasures and was able to stop the transfer of The rest of the money, however, has already disappeared in Slovakia and Asia. And contrary to usual phishing attacks that are emailed en masse, BEC scams are socially engineered and more targeted to avoid being detected as spam. BEC scams can also target enterprises and organizations for personally identifiable information and financial data deemed valuable enough to be sold to online black markets.
NBA franchise Milwaukee Bucks suffered the same when it was reported last week that the W-2 records of its employees were leaked via an email spoofing attack, revealing information such as player names, Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth and compensation figures. The Bucks organization addressed the breach by providing affected employees three years of credit monitoring and non-expiring identity restoration services. The agency also saw BEC schemes using other tactics that use romance i.
The FBI strongly advises businesses to beware of fund transfer requests made through emails, especially those requested with secrecy and urgency. Employees should also be cautious of mimicked email addresses i. In their financial report , FACC disclosed that although it was able to stop the transfer of Like it?
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