One-quarter of attacks during the first three months of 2024 involved BEC, most of which were in the finance sector, a report from Arctic Wolf revealed.
Attackers impersonated human resources departments in malicious emails purporting to be about salary updates containing PDF attachments with malicious QR codes.
Many of these "unknown" attacks are old wine in new bottles, so by focusing on familiar vectors like phishing, teams will find that these threats will decrease.