Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money

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Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money
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Business email compromise 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 – in this case, food.

"In recent incidents, criminal actors have targeted physical goods rather than wire transfers using BEC tactics. Companies in all sectors—both buyers and suppliers—should consider taking steps to protect their brand and reputation," the federal agencies said in theirIt appears to go back to the Chinese baby formula scare of 2008, in which milk powder adulterated with melamine killed six children and hospitalized thousands more.

that was shoplifting powdered milk and reselling it overseas. The escalation from shoplifting to shipmentlifting is, if nothing else, black-market capitalism in action.

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