Take the ACID test: How AI-driven behavioural models are the answer to identity-based attacks
Artificial IntelligenceCyber CrimeCyber EspionageData BreachVulnerabilities and Flaws
There is no denying that business email compromise (BEC) is big business for cybercriminals. Chances are, you’ve probably been a recipient of 'a well researched' social-engineered emails yourself. But the question remains… who is behind these increasingly sophisticated email attacks, and why did they become so popular in recent years? Why is it that humans worldwide fall for it and businesses still bleed easy money to these cybercriminals? Will we ever be able to trust our email?
Join this insightful conversation between SC Media's Tony Morbin and Agari's Crane Hassold on why security teams need to adopt an approach that is based on threat actor identity rather than type of fraudulent activity, in order to detect email fraud and protect their businesses.
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Crane Hassold is the Senior Director of Threat Research at Agari, where he leads an intelligence team responsible for researching enterprise-focused phishing attacks.
Prior to moving to the private sector in 2015, Crane served as an Analyst at the FBI for more than 11 years, providing strategic and tactical analytical support to cyber, financial crime, and violent crime cases.
For most of his career with the FBI, Crane worked in the Behavioral Analysis Units in Quantico, Virginia, where he provided analytical and behavioral support to intelligence community and law enforcement partners against national security adversaries and serial criminals.
In 2012, Crane helped create the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center, which takes an asymmetric approach to examining cyber threats by combining the traditional behavioral concepts used for decades in the violent crime world with technical expertise to gain a holistic understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.