Business email compromise (BEC) poses a serious threat to every organisation and worryingly, such attacks are getting both more sophisticated, and more financially damaging to the victims of what is also known as “whaling”. That’s according to California-based cybersecurity firm Symantec, which has noticed a steady rise in the sophistication of such attacks, which typically marry phishing-style emails to executives, with a high degree of social engineering.

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