Since last July, senior-level executives across 46 different countries were targeted by the business email compromise group, Cosmic Lynx. This is the first known Russian BEC group outside of Nigerian scanners looking to exploit this email-based attack vector. Researchers have found that Cosmic Lynx specifically targets companies that don’t use DMARC and utilises a “mergers and acquisitions” pretext to draw people in.
Source: Threatpost
