West Africa's Scattered Canary gang shows how cybercriminals supersize email scams - CyberScoop: Sometimes the most effective scam techniques are also the most mundane. Business email compromise attacks don’t involve advanced malware, and aren’t carried out by headline-grabbing nation-state hackers. BEC scams simply rely on personalized emails to dupe victims into transferring funds to someone who appears to be a co-worker, friend, or family member. But this fraud technique is taking a toll, depriving Americans of a vast sum of money each year. In 2018, the FBI’s cybercrime center received over 20,000 BEC complaints that accounted for estimated losses of $1.2 billion. Understanding the scale of the problem requires understanding how perpetrators scale their operations. The decade-long evolution of one Western African cybercriminal gang is a case in point. Email security firm Agari on Wednesday published research documenting the so-called Scattered Canary group’s rise from a lone individual to dozens of operatives specializing in various aspects of fraud. The group also has grown from peddling romance scams to targeting …
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