Fraudsters who perpetrate BEC and various other types of email scams are a serious and continuous threat to businesses today. In 2019, there were 26.2 billion dollars in reported losses from these kinds of malicious malware attacks.


For part two of our Expert Insights into Business Email Compromise (BEC) and email fraud protection, host Sherrod DeGrippo leads a lively discourse with Robert Holmes, Sr. Director of Threat Research and Detection, and Sam Scholten, CISSP, and Staff Email Fraud Researcher, both of Proofpoint — a company at the forefront of using AI and machine learning for radical, comprehensive threat protection.


Here's a sneak peek:
- The small but crucial differences between DDoS extortion and a BEC attack.
- The next generation of how Proofpoint is stopping these threats with deep analysis of every email for metadata signs of intrusion.
- Fascinating samples of previous attacks and highly creative threat actors who leveraged social cues to launch an attack.
- Successful scams take advantage of human nature and the fundamental vulnerability of individuals.

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