When Business Email Compromise Starts Rewriting Reality

Reported by Rapid7 (Douglas McKee, Director, Vulnerability Intelligence)

Summary by Cyber Security News24 Sep 2026, 15:00 CEST

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Business Email Compromise (BEC) operates on a familiar playbook. Threat actors breach a mailbox, silently monitor operations, map approval chains, and ultimately exploit that access to divert funds or exfiltrate sensitive assets. This dynamic is central to our analysis as we kick off a series around Rapid7's collaborative research with Zimbra; upcoming installments will explore technical details and broader findings based within the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.

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