As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause chaos across the globe, most of us are working at home, and business communications depend on Emails. Cyber-attacks in Emails are on the rise. FBI warns companies to be vigilant as COVID-19-Themed BEC scams continue to grow.
Business Email Compromise, BEC, is one of the most common and financially damaging online crimes. BEC scams trick victims, who perform legitimate funds transfers, to make unauthorized wire transfers or send funds directly to the cyber criminals.
The typical BEC scheme originates with the theft of a corporate executive’s credentials by phishing or other means. With those credentials in hand, cyber criminals will then impersonate the executive, sending urgent messages to lower-level employees with requests to transfer or wire funds to bank accounts.
FBI’s warning gives an excellent graphical model of “How the BEC is executed.”
Humans are the weakest link in the information security chain. To reduce human errors in email vulnerability, there are tests and education tools are available.
Phishing Security test combines with security awareness training reduce inbound email threats.
A Phishing Security Test is a tool to measure the vulnerability of your office by finding out how many of your employees may be susceptible to an email-borne social engineering attack.
Our program works like this: We periodically, send one Email to each user in your organization. In our phishing security test, an Email with text meant to lure the user into clicking an embedded link. Once the link is clicked, the user is directed to our secured education page. It tells the user they have been part of a simulated phishing test and gives them tips to use or video to watch when inspecting emails in their inbox.
An Email Phishing test and focused Email security training, together it gives employees real-world “practice” in recognizing social engineering attacks and responding to them appropriately.
Would your users fall for convincing phishing attacks? Take the first step to find out now before the bad guys do. We can show you how you stack up against your peers with phishing Industry Benchmarks.
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