IDG Contributor Network: Business email compromise: The odds of being a victim are increasing

IDG Contributor Network: Business email compromise:  The odds of being a victim are increasing

As is often the case, guidances or advisories issued by regulators in the financial services industry are frequently highly useful for all forms of businesses, whether financial services or otherwise.

The most recent such advisory is from FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which is part of the US Department of the Treasury. That guidance calls out the growing threat of business email compromise (BEC), which targets a financial institution’s commercial customers, and email account compromise (EAC), which targets the victim’s personal accounts.

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