Security News > 2021 > February > How Email Attacks are Evolving in 2021
It's something where by playing on those fears, by playing on those emotions, that's how a lot of these actors were able to be more successful on BEC. The most interesting thing with Cosmic Lynx is that with them doing that, they're able to ask for even higher amounts of money than we've seen with previous BEC actors.
At the end of the day, that's the biggest thing we have to understand is we have to understand that business email compromise is just a symptom of something that we've been trying to track for the last 30 years.
That's kind of just the reality of the situation right now, the biggest problem with fighting BEC is that we just need to understand that all of these things are related, and in order to try and figure out how you go forward with that, that's what we need to do right now, is we need to figure, "Okay, all of these things are related."
That's how we that's how we have to think of BEC going forward is kind of that holistic view, if you will.
Once we understand how this stuff really works, then we can start realizing, oh, hey, that's something that's odd in there.
That's something where that's not how it's supposed to be.