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Email, Email on the Wall, Who Sent You, After All?

During Business Email Comproise (BEC) engagements we often have to analyze the provenance of emails. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report, BEC is one of the most financially damaging attacks, even surpassing ransomware in terms of losses. But how can we know all of this? Through email headers! This blog post tries to shed some light on the information contained within emails, what it means, and what can be done to prevent this type of attack.

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Behind The Scenes Of Ransomware Attacks

This is hopefully the most useless blog post you will read this year as this post will detail our experience dealing with ransomware cases. It is one of the most common reasons why we get called in to help and it has become a big business. Chainalysis, for example, has tracked $1.1 billion in ransomware […]

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