Business e-mail compromise (BEC) poses an increasing threat to companies of all sectors and sizes across the globe. What this term means is described in this course chapter.

Many incidents of Business Email Compromise are preceded by phishing and spear phishing. How this works is shown here.

For Business Email Compromise to work, hackers often use psychological manipulation. In this context, social engineering is explained here.

What vulnerabilities do social engineers look for and which people are particularly at risk? This course chapter explains it.

This post explains how the supplier invoice fraud and CEO fraud work and how you can protect yourself from them.

BEC attacks often have one or more specific detection characteristics. These characteristics are briefly presented in this part of the course.

BEC can be prevented through a variety of simple protective and preventive measures, which are explained in this course section.