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Analyzing behavior to protect against BEC attacks

Understanding “normal” behaviors in email exchanges are key to combating advanced phishing and BEC attacks by John Stevenson Detecting Business Email Compromise (BEC)  In the final part of our series of blogs on Business Email Compromise (BEC), it’s time to look at how AI, ML, and NLP all have a

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Using NLP techniques to protect against BEC attacks

How Natural Language Programming help combat phishing and BEC attacks by John Stevenson Business Email Compromise (BEC)  Business Email Compromise (BEC) covers a range of email attacks that typically share a common core attribute. There is no obvious executable component, such as a URL or file attachment in the message

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Phishing with QR codes

Don’t Scan or be Scammed By Maharlito Aquino, Kervin Alintanahin and Dexter To In 1994, a type of the matrix barcode known as the Quick Response code, now widely known as QR code, was invented by Masahiro Hara from a Japanese company Denso Wave. The purpose of the barcode was

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Abusing Remote Administration Tools

The bad, worse and the horrible  by Gunnar Guðmundsson and Axel Marinho Guðmundsson Introduction In this article, we look at a malware payload from an exploited Microsoft Word document. With a little Python scripting and deciphering we research a single sample and gather a few more versions to view a

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Analyzing message metadata to protect against BEC attacks

Can analyzing message metadata help to protect organizations from becoming the victim of a successful BEC attack? Business Email Compromise (BEC) is an umbrella term spanning many forms of social engineering email attacks that typically share the common characteristic that there is no obvious “payload”, i.e., suspicious URL or malware-infected

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Using AI to protect against BEC attacks

With no payload to detect, how best can organizations protect themselves from Business Email Compromise and other social engineering attacks? by John Stevenson Sometimes the simplest frauds are the most successful. Some years ago, local authorities in the UK were targeted by a series of just such frauds. The modus

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