According to a report recently issued by the FBI, cyber criminals have pilfered more than $2.3bn from 17,642 victims since 2013 with BEC attacks. The number of business email compromise BEC scams continues to increase on a global scale. Scammers pretend to be executives that send emails to employees that tricked into thinking the messages are legit, hand over sensitive information to the attackers. The attackers use the stolen data to steal money to the victims or resell them in the cyber criminal underground.”]
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