Multilingual BEC Groups Use Auto Translate Tools for Payment Fraud, Payroll Diversion, And Executive Impersonation

Abnormal Security has identified two groups using executive impersonation to execute BEC attacks on companies worldwide. In a new report, the company provides details on Midnight Hedgehog, a group engaging in payment fraud, and Mandarin Capybara, a group performing payroll diversion attacks. This new report provides insight into the impact of multilingual BEC attacks, in-depth analysis of the tactics and techniques used by these groups, and offers actionable advice to organizations to defend against multilingual email-based attacks.

These groups use executive impersonation to deceive recipients into making payments for bogus services or changing payroll account details, often posing as a company’s CEO. The report highlights that by leveraging commercial online services and widely available marketing technology, BEC actors can rapidly scale their efforts, maximizing their reach and wreaking havoc across the globe.

You can read the report here.

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