Informative Details about BEC Scams

Characteristics of Business Email Compromise Attacks

Most arrive Monday and Tuesday mornings and 8% involve Payroll scams

"The BEC emails often are written with a sense of urgency in order to rush the recipient into doing the attacker's bidding, with 85% marked as urgent, 59% requesting help, and 26% inquiring about availability, according to Barracuda's findings."

Best protection? Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) via an app like Authy.

Article: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/anatomy-of-a-bec-scam/d/d-id/1336425