When an organization is subject to a Business Email Compromise (BEC), a single email could result in substantial monetary losses.
Threat actors employing such tactics could employ different techniques, ranging from simple to advanced, and have seen increased activities yearly. A recent investigation examined not a typical BEC scenario where a threat actor simply sends a fraudulent email in the hopes of tricking a victim. Instead, this B2B BEC scheme involved abusing the implicit trust between relationships amongst business partners, patiently weaved by the threat actor within days.
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Source: Trend Micro
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