Tax scams haven't changed much in the last eight years. Here's a look at the annual IRS 'Dirty Dozens' from 2014 - 2021.Continue reading
Business Email Compromise
The next evolution of BEC: virtual conferencing and deepfakes
Cybercriminals are now using virtual meeting platforms as a new channel for BEC attacks, often in combination with AI-powered deepfake technology.Continue reading
W-2 scams: How to defend against this annual threat
It's time to raise awareness during tax season about the very popular and depressingly successful wave of W-2 scams that appears every year around this time.Continue reading
Threat actors set to turn up the heat across cloud, email, networks and more in 2022
Journalist Phil Muncaster takes a look at some potential trends to watch out for in the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2022.Continue reading
Latest Internet Crime Report reveals victims lost billions from BEC, COVID scams
The FBI's 2020 IC3 report documents an increase in cybercrime across all industry sectors. COVID-related scams and BEC attacks have cost victims billions of dollars.Continue reading
Email threat types: Business Email Compromise
Business email compromise (BEC) has been one of the most damaging email threats in the past few years and is one of the email threat types examined in our free e-book, 13 email threat types to know about right now. Continue reading
Anatomy of a Sentinel catch
Check out this detailed breakdown of a spear-phishing and credential harvesting attack stopped by Barracuda Sentinel.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: Malicious accounts in business email compromise
Beware of cybercriminals who create accounts with legitimate email services and use them to launch impersonation and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.Continue reading