We are kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month by investigating a scam technique that has resulted in $26 billion in loss since 2013. This technique is Business Email Compromise (BEC). Attackers compromise or spoof emails and convince victims to give money or perform other negative actions. To dive deep on the topic we welcome FireEye Cybersecurity Engineer Jamie Maxfield. Jamie covers some of the technical safeguards FireEye products have in place to stop scammers from defrauding companies and individuals. The episode also goes into ways people can detect these scams even if the technical safeguards are not present.
Learn more about Business Email Compromise in our recent blog post: https://cipher.com/blog/business-email-compromise.