Bec

Cybercriminals' BEC Schemes Exploit Athletes in Soccer’s Golden Era

September 17, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

For Cybercriminals and Lamine Yamal, it's a “Golden Generation” — for Pulisic and US Soccer, it's not so Golden.

Armand here, RPost’s armadillo product evangelist. I was considering getting back to my main passion of talking “tech” (with an RPost spin of course 😉) but couldn’t help thinking about sports and gold.

How $125 Million Was Stolen in a Real Estate Transaction and How RPost PRE-Crime™ Can Protect

August 30, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Story of Multi-Party Impersonation schemes; one person poses on both sides of a transaction via tactics like AI clones to siphon large sums.

Speaking to a multi-family-office real estate investor, he mentioned that his colleague mis-sent $125 million in a San Francisco commercial real estate transaction closing, with the funds ultimately routing off to Nigeria. Yes, $125 million!

Preventing Fraud: How RMail’s PRE-Crime™ Identifies Fake Wire Transfers

June 28, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

RMail’s PRE-Crime service identifies and isolates compromised or lookalike email accounts and pre-empts bogus wire transfers.

It’s your favorite brand ambassador here to report the latest in tech as well as how RPost is on the cutting edge of stopping cybercrimes from happening. I’m back home this week in West Texas all alone; just like some of the latest cybercriminals.

Top Three FBI-Special-Agent Speaker Insights on BEC

May 05, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

We’ve had a few days of insightful discussions at the world’s largest legal IT security event, ILTA LegalSEC. Since many of you are not able to (or not in the right frame of mind to) travel to beautiful Baltimore to experience this event live, I thought I would dedicate this week’s Tech Essentials to sharing the top three FBI-special-agent speaker insights (from my perspective).

Sophisticated Email Initiated Crime & How to Prevent Them With RMail PRE-Crime Services

February 10, 2023 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

You may wish you were one of the zombies from The Last of Us after a BEC attack. Previously on Tech Essentials, we introduced you to the cybercrime phenomenon initiated by Email Eavesdropping and ending in a mis-wire, in part 1 of a 3-part series we’re running.

The Top Cybersecurity Trends of 2022

December 30, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

What were the top tech and e-security trends of 2022? What can be said about 2022 that hasn’t already been said? You’ve likely already been inundated with perfunctory retrospectives on the ‘year that was’—the Ukraine War, Elon Musk, inflation, midterms, Kanye West, ‘the slap’, Messi, et al. But I would like to think that 2022 […]

How to Alert a Sender if The Recipient Email is Malicious

November 11, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

RMail’s Lookalike Domain Detector Alerts a Sender after They Click Forward, Reply or Reply All–before the Email Is Sent Before we begin today’s tech tip, we first wholeheartedly thank all Veterans for their courage and commitment past and present. It is this, that gives us others the opportunity to worry about free society business risks, […]

Top 5 Insurance Tech Issues & Insights From AppliedNet at Optimize!22

November 09, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

From AppliedNet, The Top 5 InsurTech Peer Insights (We Took Notes For You) To extend the premise of today’s in-person user conferences – learning from peers – we’ve prepared a list of the five most significant issues or insights that we heard from insurance agents’ and brokers’ conference participants in October.

Alert on External Email When There Is an Actual Issue

October 21, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Only RMail offers features that can foil BEC attacks without “cry wolf” email stamps. We’ve talked a lot about the hydra of BEC (business email compromise) attacks recently due to the increasing share of these types of attacks within the universe of cybercrime that employ multiple techniques to lure users into sending money to the […]

Top 5 Legal Security Issues & Insights From ILTA LegalSEC at Optimize!22

October 19, 2022 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

From ILTA LegalSEC, The Top 5 Peer Insights (We Took Notes) To extend the premise of ILTA (the International Legal Technology Association) – learning from peers – we’ve prepared a list of the five most significant issues or insights that we heard from international legal technology security (LegalSEC) conference participants.