New Phishing Campaign Leverages Aging Reports to Target Businesses

Posted on 15 January 2020

From cyware.com

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The new threat group impersonates company CFOs, requesting an updated aging report from companies’ financial department staff.
There should be a multi-layered approach to email security to prevent scams by impersonation.

A hacker group called Ancient Tortoise was reportedly found targeting accounts receivable specialists for hoodwinking them into obtaining information on customers via aging reports.