Recent Cybersecurity Incidents on the Campaign Trail Highlight Risks for Ordinary Companies
By EsqSocial Corporation 03/11/20
Although this is no ordinary campaign, recent news shows how politicians have many of the same worries as typical businesses. On Thursday, October 29, 2020, the Wisconsin Republican Party reported that it had been victimized by a Business Email Compromise (BEC). There are many ways in which a criminal may conduct a BEC scam but one of the most common occurs when hackers compromise a vendor’s email accounts to hijack vendor payments. With this access, the hacker prepares elaborately fake...
By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.