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Attack Details
Attack Date:
Jun 24, 2022

Executive Impersonation New Vendor Payment Fraud BEC Attack

Initial Email Content

Subject
Oversea payment
Body

Are you available? Please confirm if an international wire payment can be processed to a consultant today. Let me know when you get this so i can provide details.


Best Regards,


[Executive First Name]

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Attack Description

This text-based BEC attack impersonates an executive using a free webmail account, a spoofed display name, and a new vendor theme to request a fraudulent payment.

Analysis Overview

Tactic
Free Webmail Account
Spoofed Display Name
Goal
Payment Fraud
Impersonated Party
Employee - Executive
Vector
Text-based
Theme
New Vendor
Language