BEC Email Trends: Attacks up 15% in 2025
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**Executive summary:** This LevelBlue SpiderLabs report documents a 15% rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) activity in 2025 versus 2024, highlights dominant lures (Request for Contact, Payroll Diversion, invoice fraud, gift card scams), frequent use of freemail (Gmail dominant) and newborn domains, and describes emerging tactics including dual-channel/smishing, callback phishing, mailbox takeovers via AiTM, multi-persona fake threads, and AI-generated longer messages; recommended mitigations include user training, stronger financial verification, IAM/MFA, and email security solutions.
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