- 38% increase in Cybercrime-as-a-Service targeting business email observed between 2019 and 2022
- 35 million business email compromise attempts, with an average of 156,000 attempts daily, detected and investigated by Microsoft Threat Intelligence between April 2022 and April 2023
SINGAPORE, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft has released its fourth edition of Cyber Signals, highlighting a surge in cybercriminal activity around business email compromise (BEC), the common tactics employed by BEC operators, and how enterprises can defend against these attacks.
Key insights shared in this edition of Cyber Signals, a cyberthreat intelligence brief spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion daily security signals and 8,500 security experts, include:
- Between April 2022 and April 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence detected and investigated 35 million BEC attempts with an average of 156,000 attempts daily.[1]
- Microsoft also observed a 38% increase in Cybercrime-as-a-Service targeting business email between 2019 and 2022. One of such services is BulletProftLink that creates industrial-scale malicious mail…
