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Data Breach Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC) Phishing Scams

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Key Takeaways from the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2025

Published in August 2025, the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2025 provides a detailed overview of the evolving cyber threat landscape, drawing on data from millions of endpoints and cloud workloads worldwide....more

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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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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

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As If Bank Failures Aren’t Enough – Hackers Are Exploiting the Chaos to Breach Security

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

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Cybersecurity Risks for Business- A Primer on Prevention

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As technology evolves, companies are finding ways to become more nimble and conduct business more efficiently — over remote networks, email on handheld devices, the cloud, and on cellphones. Yet, as technology advances, so...more

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Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Scourge That Is Business Email Compromise

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In June 2014, the CEO of Omaha-based Scoular Company sent a series of emails to his company’s controller to let him know that the company was in negotiations to buy a Chinese company. The emails highlighted the sensitivity of...more

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Business Exposure to Internet Crime

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Each year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes its Internet Crime Report.  The IC3’s 2020 Internet Crime Report includes startling information about the continuing...more

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Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

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281 criminal arrested for Spearphishing (think Business Email Compromise or BEC)!

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Darkreading.com reported that the 281 criminals “stole more than 250,000 identities and filed more than 10,000 fraudulent tax returns… attempting to generate more than $91 million in refunds.” The September 11, 2019 report...more

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Back to School – Avoiding Theft of Data and Money via the “Business Email Compromise” Scam

The FBI warned this summer that the “Business Email Compromise” (“BEC”) scam continues to grow, evolve, and target businesses of all sizes. As reported by the FBI in June, the scam had hit more than 22,000 victims for a...more

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Information Security and Privacy Group News: Cybersecurity Conference Essential Take-Aways Government, Industry and Legal...

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Representatives of Connecticut businesses and corporations, educational institutions, and state and local government attended Murtha Cullina’s March 2016 Cybersecurity Conference at the Quinnipiac University School of Law....more

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The Sophisticated Hack: Business Email Compromise

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

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