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Business Email Compromise
The Western Australian District Court’s recent decision in Mobius Group Pty Ltd v Inoteq Pty Ltd1 highlights the potential consequence for the innocent party where fraudulent changes in bank details are sent from their...more
Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more
Virtually all organizations have an obligation to safeguard their personal data against unauthorized access or use. Failure to comply with such obligations can lead to significant financial and reputational harm. In a...more
In a series of three articles, we will address the ascendency of account takeover (“ATO”) and business email compromise (“BEC”) fraud — the unfortunate occurrence where a payor or intended payee’s account is compromised,...more
The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more
Fight back against this major cyber threat. Business Email Compromise is one of the greatest cyber threats to businesses of all sizes and industries, particularly those involved in regular wire transfers of funds....more
The shifts in customer behavior driven by the global COVID pandemic were a boon for digital payments – consumer adoption in the U.S. reached 82% in 2021, up from 78% in 2020 and 72% in 2016. However, the industry "sector"...more
Please join Consumer Financial Services Partner Chris Willis and his colleagues and fellow Partners Mary Zinsner and Susan Flint as they discuss the current landscape of wire fraud scams in the financial services industry....more
Working remotely can open up more risk to business email compromise....more
On July 16, 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued an “Updated Advisory on Email Compromise Fraud Schemes Targeting Vulnerable Business Processes” (the “Advisory”). The...more
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced new efforts to crack down on Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes and those who profit from such scams. BEC fraud schemes generally...more
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission published an investigative report. The report discusses the Commission’s investigation of nine public companies that were subject to cyber breaches. ...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the government chorus in sounding the alarm about the rapid rise in "business email compromises" that are victimizing organizations across industry sectors....more
• The SEC issued guidance in the form of a rare “21(a) report” this week after investigating a series of email frauds impacting 9 unnamed companies. • These email-based frauds, referred to as “CEO scams” or “vendor scams,”...more
On June 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the internationally coordinated arrests of 74 individuals involved in a series of multimillion-dollar business email compromise schemes ("BEC"). Although these...more
Business email compromise (“BEC”) is a type of cyberattack that is increasing at an alarming pace. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated in a May 2017 alert that global losses due to BEC scams totaled more than...more
The “business compromise email” is what the FBI calls the “$5 billion scam,” but apparently an insurance company did not agree with an insured company that they had been the victim of a crime....more
On April 14, 2016, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed a civil forfeiture action seeking to recover nearly $100 million stolen from an unidentified U.S. company through a form of wire fraud or...more
Gone are the days of the overtly suspicious request from a Nigerian prince asking for your social security number or a friend needing a loan to get out of jail in a foreign country. These easily recognizable hacking attempts...more
In March, we reported on the Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) scam where criminals target employees responsible for wiring company money, and trick them into wiring money under false pretenses to fraudulent accounts...more