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Learn Social Engineering
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Learn Social Engineering

by Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
April 2018
Beginner
566 pages
16h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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CEO fraud

CEO fraud occurs when social engineers impersonate company executives and manipulate other employees to transfer unauthorized finances or information. According to the FBI, since January 2015, there has been a 270 % increase in identified victims of CEO scams, and $2.3 billion lost to CEO fraud.

FBI: $2.3 Billion Lost to CEO Email Scams available at http://bit.ly/1TE1jl6, Krebs, B.(2016).

Some examples of CEO fraud attack are as follows:

Examples of CEO fraud attack

Cybercriminals make phishing attacks to an executive and gain access to their inbox, or email employees from a look-alike domain name that is one or two letters off from ...

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ISBN: 9781788837927