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Attack Date: May 23, 2022
Executive Impersonation Aging Report Compromise BEC Attack
This text-based BEC attack impersonates an executive using a spoofed display name and a maliciously registered domain to request a copy of an aging report.
Email Content
Subject
Past Due Accounting Collections
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Hello [Recipient First Name],
We are having a current review in our accounting system.
Can you sort all our receivables by their due date to estimate the bad debts expense and should be arranged into columns such as: Current, 1-30 days past due, 31-60 days past due, 61-90+ days past due.
Also include their various emails and phone numbers in an excel sheet, please kindly attend to this request as soon as possible and let me know when you can send it over.
I await your response.
Thank You,
[Executive First Name].