Business Email Compromise (BEC) phishing campaigns coordinated by Nigerian BEC actors. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has attributed 2.1 million BEC attacks to the SilverTerrier actors since 2014. BEC scammers are known for using social engineering via phishing attacks or hacking to switch the bank accounts used by an organization’s financial department to wire out funds. Government healthcare agencies, COVID-19 response organizations, and medical research facilities from across the globe were the targets of these attacks. The researchers advise organizations that could be targeted by such attacks to implement spam filtering.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/silverterrier-bec-scammers-target-us-govt-healthcare-agencies/