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Spoof Attacks: How Threat Actors Fake Their Way In

A Single Spoof Email Cost This Company $121 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation disclosed that a subsidiary lost $37 million after an attacker used a spoofed email to impersonate a senior executive and authorize a fraudulent wire transfer. That wasn't an isolated case. Business email compromise (BEC)

Carl B. Johnson Oct 24, 2022 7 min read
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Spoof Attacks: How Threat Actors Impersonate You

In July 2021, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — overwhelmingly powered by spoof techniques — cost victims over $1.8 billion in 2020 alone. That made it the single most financially damaging category of cybercrime they tracked. Not ransomware. Not credential theft. Spoofing-driven impersonation.

Carl B. Johnson Aug 24, 2021 8 min read