Crane Hassold is the Sr. Director of Threat Research at Agari. Prior to joining the private sector, Crane served as an Analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for more than 11 years, providing strategic and tactical analytical support to cyber, financial crime, and violent crime cases. For most of his career with the FBI, Crane worked in the Behavioral Analysis Units in Quantico, Virginia, where he provided analytical and behavioral support (“profiling”) to intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals. Crane has also been recognized as a subject matter expert in open source intelligence collection and has presented at numerous conferences about using successful analytical techniques.
Scattered Canary shares 13-page tutorial on how to commit fraud via Texas Workforce Commission website
Security researchers discuss attackers' evolving methodologies in business email compromise and phishing campaigns.
We've seen these types of payments go upward of $1 million. These are the types of sophisticated pretexts we see becoming more and more prevalent in the wire transfer/BEC space.
For these cyber-criminals it’s all about information flow. The tutorial shows how to apply for unemployment benefits and even introduces some of the red flags if you enter things a certain way.