Business Email Compromise Business email compromise is not an ordinary fake email. The attacker breaks into business correspondence, or imitates it well enough that somebody in the company believes the request comes from the director, from finance, from a supplier, a lawyer or a partner. The aim is usually money, but it can also be a confidential document, a change of payment details, or an opening for the next phase of the attack.

Ransom DDoS Ransom DDoS joins an attack on availability to extortion. The attackers threaten to bring the service down, or first run a short demonstration attack, and then ask for money for the attack to stop or for a larger one not to happen.

Whaling … ike a legal letter, a board request, confidential financial correspondence, an urgent acquisition decision, or a message from an important partner. The attack c …

Distributed Denial of Service / DDoS … es sends enormous traffic at the public site of a financial institution.

Pretexting … from a supposed auditor asks for urgent access to financial documents, citing the name of a real manager.

Zero-Day Exploitation … companies, supply chains, journalists, activists, financial systems or infrastructure. When they do appear in mass use, the window for reacting is short.