FBI warns that BEC attacks now also target food shipments

Organizations in the food sector are now also targeted in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to a joint advisory issued by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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@naikarrah
How long before trust in online transactions disappears entirely? In Brooklyn for a couple weeks now, a network of three hospitals canโ€™t get ahold of their medical records because of a hack.

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@GreenCheese
the bigger problem is that there *never* should have been trust placed soley in online info/transactions to begin with--there's no such thing as 'totally secure' digital data online...period.

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@naikarrah
What a mess.
Paper wasnโ€™t completely secure either I guess. A couple years ago the warehouse holding the paper medical records for most. Area hospitals burned down.

@GreenCheese

that sort of thing was at least far more rare than hacking/ransomware/trojans/etc.
the simplest viable protection is closed network/completely offline backups+storage, in case of emergencies such as Brooklyn's hospitals is experiencing.

@naikarrah I canโ€™t believe they didnโ€™t have all this stuff backup off line. S

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