Police in Nigeria this week arrested a 37-year-old man who's been charged with masterminding "a criminal syndicate tied to massive business email compromise and phishing campaigns," Interpol reports. But with known BEC losses last year exceeding $2.4 billion, will the arrest have a noticeable impact?
A majority of financial institutions have reported a rise in account opening fraud and payment scams, which is expected to continue and cause losses for banks, says Trace Fooshee, strategic adviser at Aite-Novarica Group. He discusses new technologies to put in place to mitigate scam attacks.
The new Expel Quarterly Threat Report provides data on what we’re seeing,
detection opportunities, and resilience recs to help protect your organization.
We’ll dive into the trends in this report, based on incidents the Expel security
operations center (SOC) team identified through investigations into...
Abnormal Security has closed a $210 million funding round on a $4 billion valuation to apply its account takeover prevention technology to areas other than email. The company wants to use its AI to protect accounts across systems and SaaS platforms and in environments such as Workday and Salesforce.
In the today’s digital world, when so much of our lives are online, identity verification and authentication are critical to addressing fraud-related risk management challenges. To prevent fraud and protect your business and your customers, you must be certain the people you are dealing with are who they represent...
Sercan Oyuntur, a 40-year-old California resident, has been found guilty of stealing payments of over $23 million from the U.S. Department of Defense, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The stolen payment was meant for DOD's jet fuel suppliers.
Today’s sophisticated cyberattacks combine multiple tactics that include social engineering, zero-day malware and 3rd party OAuth app abuse. Threat actors employ tactics across email, cloud and web that target specific people in your organization to breach your environment and access sensitive data. Hybrid work...
Skyrocketing attack rates, double and triple extortion, increasing ransom demands… cybercriminals are inflicting pain in every way imaginable when it comes to today’s ransomware attacks. And you need to be prepared to protect your network, NOW.
Find out the steps you need to take to minimize damage to your...
Although the final weeks of 2021 will be remembered for the resurgence of the pandemic, driven by the new Omicron strain, the second half of the year marked the end of restrictions and the reopening of economies in many parts of the world.
What has become clearly apparent from analysis of the LexisNexis® Digital...
Findings from the latest LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report revealed that between July-December 2021, the mobile share of transactions in the LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® reached 75% for the first time, as app-based transactions become the predominant means by which consumers transact globally. ...
The scary fact is that the majority of data breaches are caused by human error. With so many technical controls in place hackers are still getting through to your end users. How are they so easily manipulated into giving the cybercriminals what they want? Well, hackers are crafty. And the best way to beat them is to...
Your secure email gateway (SEG) never stood a chance. Socially-engineered attacks are the largest security threat, and with the rise of modern attacks like supply chain compromise, executive impersonation, and account takeover, it’s become obvious that the SEG no longer works. These traditional solutions simply...
Your secure email gateway (SEG) never stood a chance. Socially-engineered attacks are the largest security threat, and with the rise of modern attacks like supply chain compromise, executive impersonation, and account takeover, it’s become obvious that the SEG no longer works. These traditional solutions simply...
Your secure email gateway (SEG) never stood a chance. Socially-engineered attacks are the largest security threat, and with the rise of modern attacks like supply chain compromise, executive impersonation, and account takeover, it’s become obvious that the SEG no longer works. These traditional solutions simply...
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