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CrowdStrike Falcon Fund Investment to Help Drive Protection Across the Broader Attack Surface ... | March 29, 2023

Security pros see letter from Elon Musk and other big names in tech as media hype and call for a more level-headed approach — even regulation.

A novel take on investment scams mixes romance and the lure of crypto riches to con targets out of "the whole hog" of their assets.

BEC gangs Midnight Hedgehog and Mandarin Capybara show how online marketing and translation tools are making it easy for these threat groups to scale internationally.

Once the domain of sophisticated attackers, the availability of automated translation tools lowers the barrier-of-entry to wage the financially destructive business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

The threat actors extensively research their target’s responsibilities and relationship with the CEO and create spoofed email accounts that look like the real ones.

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are a major issue and are reckoned to have accounted for over a third of all financial losses from cyberattacks in 2021.

Why aren't workers reporting malicious emails to IT?

'Opting to just delete the email without reporting it can be almost as damaging'

Abnormal Security's H1 2023 Email Threat Report reveals worrisome corporate security challenges associated with the workforce.