Business Email Compromise Attacks in Many Ways Business Email Compromise Cybercriminal Lures Attack in Many Ways, Like a Hydra Monster with Many Heads. Each Attack Vector Needs a Defense. Enter RMail. Before we start today’s article, we’d like to ensure you have heard about – and been invited to – RPost’s Optimize!2022 global e-security and e-sign user conference (click here to read more). This year’s unique format includes web sessions spaced throughout the month plus in-person expert tours across the Americas and Europe.
We’ve just completed the first week – with our keynote analyst speaker educating on the trickiest cyber lures called Business Email Compromise (click to relive) coupled by a kick off customer reception and in-person sessions with hundreds of insurance customers in Nashville and Orlando. Read to see what’s in store for the next weeks including Florida Bar free CLE sessions! Now, let’s get on with today’s discussion — what the heck does a Hydra monster have to do with technology? Elementary school for most people was basically a series of tedious number memorizations and handwriting practice. However, while I learned my times tables and carefully honed my cursive skills, I yearned for story time where we would learn about the great heroes and monsters of ancient mythology. My personal favorite was the legend of Hercules and his Twelve Labors, which are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out by Heracles (a/k/a Hercules), the greatest of the Greek heroes. My favorite of these 12 stories was the second one where the Hydra monster appears. Not up on your Greek mythology? Well, the Hydra was giant, serpentine creature that had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly. What it is most famous for is possessing many heads, and for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two new heads. The Hydra, over time, became a metaphor for an intractable problem, one where even the cleverest-seeming solution actually makes the problem worse.