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Protect Your Business From Fake CEO Attack

15 August 2018by Abdallah Alhajeid

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the FBI is reporting that email-based social engineering attacks were the most commonly reported cybercrime category in the US in 2017. Business e-mail compromise (fake CEO attack) and fake investment scams targeting companies and not for profit organisations resulted in an estimated loss of over $676 million dollars. ...