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BEC Actors Exploiting Gmail “Dot Accounts” for Fun and Profit
Tue, 02/05/2019
Within Fortra's Threat Intelligence service, we regularly engage with BEC threat actors using active defense techniques. Recently, during one of our investigations into a group comprised of these threat actors, we observed several scammers taking advantage of a “feature” that Google has built into Gmail addresses. While Google sees this as an advantage of consumers, cybercriminals are exploiting...