Fortra appears in the Q4 2025 APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report for its analysis of Business Email Compromise activity and attacker behavior. The report shows how anti-phishing tools help track evolving threat patterns at scale.
Fortra reviewed thousands of BEC attacks this quarter and found a 136% increase in wire transfer attempts. The average amount requested increased to $50,297. The report also points out Scripted Sparrow, now the most active BEC group worldwide. This group sends up to 6 million targeted emails each month and often uses fake executive approval chains.
Originally published in APWG.
Excerpt: “Scripted Sparrow, whose members hail from South Africa, Nigeria, the U.S., and Turkey, uses a spoofed reply chain designed to trick the recipient into believing the expense was approved by a company executive.”
Originally published in APWG.
Excerpt: “Scripted Sparrow, whose members hail from South Africa, Nigeria, the U.S., and Turkey, uses a spoofed reply chain designed to trick the recipient into believing the expense was approved by a company executive.”