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In March 2025, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio wired $1.2 million to a threat actor who sent a single spoofed email — a fakeemail that perfectly mimicked the CEO's display name, writing style, and even included a forwarded thread from a real conversation. The email passed every
That Email From Your CEO? It Was a FakeEmail. In January 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million after attending a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a
The FakeEmail Problem Is Bigger Than You Think In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that covers most fakeemail schemes — accounted for $2.4 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. That made it the single most financially damaging
Your Old AIM Email Address Is a Bigger Problem Than You Think In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger — after 20 years of operation. Millions of users shrugged and moved on. But here's what most people didn't consider: their old AIM email
