Blog courtesy of KnowBe4
Written by Stu Sjouwerman
Researchers at Agari have released a report on the global distribution of business email compromise (BEC) actors, and determined that 25% of these criminals are operating from within the United States. This makes the US the second-largest hub for BEC actors in the world. Criminals in Nigeria still account for the vast majority of BEC attacks, at 50% of the global total. South Africa was third, with criminals there responsible for 9% of these attacks. Agari’s researchers based their findings on incidents in which the attackers failed to anonymise their real-world locations.
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