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U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. [...]

The FBI said it was aware of hackers targeting Patel’s personal email, and that no government information was taken. The post Iranian hackers, Handala, claim to compromise FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal data appeared first on CyberScoop.

New FBI data reveals BEC scams have cost businesses more than $55bn since 2013

FBI Says It Received Most Attack Reports From Healthcare, Critical ManufacturingCybercrime reports submitted by victims to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center surged last year, and the total reported losses exceeded $12.5 billion. Investment fraud and business email compromise losses dominated, and ransomware attacks spared almost no critical infrastructure sector.

Defence against the dark arts of phishing Webinar Almost half of all losses to cybercrime come from Business Email Compromise (BEC), according to the FBI. It appears that even the most astute among us can fall foul of a cunningly crafted phishing email masquerading as a missive from a trusted source.…

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances patched against a recently disclosed critical flaw continue to be at risk of potential compromise from suspected Chinese hacking groups

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that patches for a critical Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) remote command injection flaw are "ineffective," and patched appliances are still being compromised in ongoing attacks. [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning companies in the U.S. of threat actors using tactics similar to business email compromise that allow less technical actors to steal various goods from vendors. [...]

Also, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies In brief Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it's evolving, with the FBI and other federal agencies warning that cybercriminals have started using spoofed emails to steal shipments of physical goods – in this case, food. …

Organizations in the food sector are now also targeted in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to a joint advisory issued by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). [...]

Email compromise could be a $43bn problem

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) scams continues to grow each year, with a 65% increase in the identified global exposed losses between July 2019 and December 2021. [...]

A coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and its international law enforcement partners has resulted in disrupting business email compromise (BEC) schemes in several countries. [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned today that US organizations and individuals are being increasingly targeted in BEC (business email compromise) attacks on virtual meeting platforms. [...]