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The group's wanton attacks demonstrate that business email compromise is everything a hacker can want in one package: low risk, high reward, quick, easy, and low effort.

Rising 'Firebrick Ostrich' BEC Group Launches Industrial-Scale Cyberattacks

The so-called Firebrick Ostrich threat group has become one of the leading perpetrators of business email compromise attacks, or BEC, where scammers try to trick employees into sending money or confidential information via email.

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The latest Abnormal research found that between July–December 2022, the median open rate for text-based business email compromise (BEC) attacks was nearly 28%.

New Abnormal Security Research Shows Employees Open 28% of BEC Attacks, Fail to Report 98% of All Email Attacks

Abnormal Security describes a business email compromise (BEC) gang it calls “Firebrick Ostrich” that performs third-party reconnaissance attacks in the service of subsequent business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The

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