What Is a Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attack?

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What Is a Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attack? A Business Email Compromise (BEC), sometimes called a “BEC attack”, begins with threat actors compromising and spoofing emails to impersonate an organization’s CEO, heads of departments, executives, or vendors. It has several characteristics similar to spear-phishing attacks: emails targeted towards a specific individual, enterprise, or business to […]

How to Report a Phishing Email using Outlook on the Web

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What is Phishing and Why is it Bad? Phishing is a term that refers to a digital attack that attempts to bait someone into a particular action. The connection to regular fishing (with an f) is straightforward: In real-life fishing, you bait the hook with a worm or lure in an attempt to convince a […]