IT-Online reported:
Emails mimicking correspondence between the organisation’s CEO and contractor companies were sent to the organisation’s finance department to persuade them into paying urgent “invoices” for alleged “consulting services”. These attack attempts highlight a disturbing trend of targeted schemes leveraging forged executive identities to exploit corporate trust.
Some incidents involved emails that imitated correspondence between the company’s CEO and an alleged contractor law firm, urging the financial department to pay the attached fake invoice. The fake correspondence with the CEO of a victim company was used as “proof” that the request for payment was legitimate. In this attack the name of the fictional partner company was indicated only in the name of the sender field, and a real email address was different and changed from email to email.
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Emails mimicking correspondence between the organisation’s CEO and contractor companies were sent to the organisation’s finance department to persuade them into paying urgent “invoices” for alleged “consulting services”. These attack attempts highlight a disturbing trend of targeted schemes leveraging forged executive identities to exploit corporate trust.
Some incidents involved emails that imitated correspondence between the company’s CEO and an alleged contractor law firm, urging the financial department to pay the attached fake invoice. The fake correspondence with the CEO of a victim company was used as “proof” that the request for payment was legitimate. In this attack the name of the fictional partner company was indicated only in the name of the sender field, and a real email address was different and changed from email to email.
Find the original article here.
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