The Lincoln Project Super PAC Tricked into Paying $35,000 in BEC Scam
The Lincoln Project, a US political action committee (super PAC), fell victim to
a business email compromise (BEC) attack that defrauded them of $35,000.
BEC scams are widespread and primarily affect businesses and organizations. In a
nutshell, hackers impersonate another enterprise or person and trick the victims
into paying false invoices, making changes to existing payments, and many
similar scenarios.
These scams all start the same. Somehow, hackers take over a legitimate email,
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