{"id":49769,"date":"2022-12-17T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/email-hijackers-scam-food-out-of-businesses-not-just-money\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:00:07","slug":"email-hijackers-scam-food-out-of-businesses-not-just-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/email-hijackers-scam-food-out-of-businesses-not-just-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money"},"content":{"rendered":"

In brief<\/span> Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it’s evolving, with the FBI and other federal agencies warning that cybercriminals have started using spoofed emails to steal shipments of physical goods \u2013 in this case, food. <\/p>\n

Along with the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations and the US Department of Agriculture, the FBI said several US food manufacturers have already fallen victim to scams, many of which involved fake orders for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of a single item: powdered milk.<\/p>\n

The FBI considers BEC attacks to be one of the most financially devastating<\/a> online crimes, claiming it netted criminals nearly $2.4 billion in 2021 alone. The method involves a criminal compromising a legitimate account and, traditionally, using it to send fake invoices to trick a busy business into paying for a service that wasn’t provided.<\/p>\n