Security News > 2022 > June > InQuest Labs: Man + Machine vs Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Generically, the industry has conformed to the term Business Email Compromise to capture this swath of threats, including impersonation, phishing, spoofing, and in more advanced cases, by way of a malicious attachment, including Adobe and Microsoft Office documents.
To help address this gap, we launched InQuest Labs, a free research portal designed to crowdsource the discovery of emerging threats.
Samples under DFI are labeled as unknown, suspicious, or malicious through a combination of heuristics, multi-AV, reputation, and machine learning models.
You can leverage our Labs API to automate the extraction of the network-related IOCs from all of these samples to shine a light on the overall infrastructure being used for this campaign.
Another approach towards discovering interesting malware is through a newer component of InQuest Labs, the Trystero project, where we measure the efficacy of the major mail providers in blocking emerging threats.
All-in-all, the intent of InQuest Labs is to provide the information security community with both accessible technology and data to discover and thwart emerging threats.