by James Cavenaugh | May 15, 2026 | Email Security
The FBI issued a public service announcement a couple of years ago warning about QR code phishing, and the volume has climbed every quarter since. Vendor research from Proofpoint, Barracuda, and others shows QR-based phishing, which the industry has started calling...
by James Cavenaugh | May 1, 2026 | Email Security
Business email compromise at a law firm or CPA practice doesn’t always start with your firm. About half the time, from what the FBI’s IC3 reports show, the attacker compromises a vendor or a client first, and then uses that mailbox to defraud you. Which...
by James Cavenaugh | Apr 24, 2026 | Email Security
The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report logged $2.9 billion in business email compromise losses. That’s the line that gets quoted. What doesn’t get quoted is the mechanism. Almost all of that loss runs through a tiny, boring piece of Microsoft Outlook...
by James Cavenaugh | Mar 23, 2026 | Email Security
In 2023, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise caused $2.9 billion in losses. Not ransomware. Not crypto scams. Email. It’s been the most expensive category of cybercrime for years running, and it hits...
