The monthly Global BEC Insights Report from Fortra presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) employed by BEC threat actors. This report draws on extensive intelligence gathered from hundreds of active defense engagements conducted throughout the month. Key insights include geolocation data, attack volume, and the variety of scams, such as payroll diversion and advance fee fraud. The report also highlights the use of gift cards in scams, the requested amounts in wire transfer fraud, and the banks and webmail providers frequently targeted by attackers. These findings provide a critical understanding of the evolving BEC threat landscape.

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Click the infographic to view and download in full size One of the most fundamental — and often overlooked — processes of a strong security posture is vulnerability management (VM). VM is much more than just running a vulnerability scan; it’s at the core of all the layers that make up solid cybersecurity. Whether your organization has a simple...

CASB definedA cloud access security broker (CASB), is cloud-delivered software or on-premises software and/or hardware that acts as an intermediary between users and cloud service providers. The ability of CASBs to address gaps in security extends across software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. In addition to providing...

Zero Trust NetworkingAs an increasing number of users access resources from anywhere, ZTNA solutions can help eliminate gaps in other secure remote access technologies and methods.Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) enforces granular, adaptive, and context-aware policies for providing secure and seamless Zero Trust access to private apps hosted across clouds and corporate data centers, from any...

UEBA is a cybersecurity process that monitors normal usage behavior and flags deviations from established patterns. Because while a perpetrator can easily steal an employee’s username and password, it's much harder to imitate that person’s normal behavior on the network connecting to applications and data. UEBA helps detect intentional and unintentional insider threats, where an authorized user...

A strong security posture keeps an organization prepared to predict, prevent, and mitigate security threats. While your security posture should include any technologies your organization builds, it also must account for all the tech tools in your ecosystem. The proliferation of SaaS applications in modern business has inspired an entirely new category of security: SaaS security posture management,...

SASE definedAs defined by Gartner, SASE is a framework designed to integrate security and network connectivity technologies into a unified, cloud-delivered platform to enable the secure and fast adoption of cloud services. Through the convergence of networking and network security, SASE meets the challenges of digital business transformation, edge computing, and workforce mobility.As organizations...

As we use more and more cloud applications, the more difficult it’s become to maintain and control our multi-cloud environments. Because of this increasing complexity, configuration errors are becoming more and more common — Gartner says that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be caused by misconfiguration errors. To stay on top of your cloud application security and prevent...

Secure Web Gateway definedOrganizations use a SWG to protect their employees. A secure web gateway (SWG) is a security solution that prevents unsecured internet traffic from entering an internal network of an organization. It is used by organizations to protect their employees and users from accessing and being infected by malicious web traffic, websites with vulnerabilities, internet-borne...