Talos Takes Ep: #62: Don't sleep on business email compromise
Summary: A recent FBI report found that business email compromise cost users more than $1 billion in 2020, and attackers are still using lures such as PlayStation 5 sales and the COVID-19 pandemic to scam people. On this episode of Talos Takes, Nick Biasini recaps his research into BEC and discusses why the threat may never go away, pointing to users as the reason.
What you should know: BEC is treated as last decade's threat, yet the FBI put its 2020 cost above $1 billion, and the source attributes its persistence to users rather than to any technical gap.
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