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In recent years, the term BEC (Business Email Compromise) has become a persistent symbol of corporate losses and headaches for security services worldwide. Email is a seemingly familiar tool, and many have written about its threats. But BEC attacks incorporate the full arsenal of social engineering, spoofed communications, and even elements of psychological pressure on company employees, most often accountants, financial managers, and executives.
What is social engineering?
Social engineering is a technique used by criminals to trick you into revealing sensitive data that you would otherwise prefer not to disclose. They can use this method to gain access to your Extranet account and steal sensitive information about your guests, such as personal information (name, address, etc.) or credit card details.
Hackers intentionally disable online services using DDoS attacks. This can affect companies of any size, causing irreparable consequences—loss of money, customers, and reputational damage. Cyberattacks can be especially devastating for online stores and media outlets. We explore how cybercriminals use virus-infected computers to attack online resources and how to protect against hackers in 2025.
How we repelled the attack
It all started when, on the morning of October 21st, we noticed unusually high activity on one of our client's websites. Thousands of search engine crawlers began accessing the interior design studio's website. This caused all websites hosted on the same server as the one being attacked to load slowly. It became clear that the attackers were masquerading as search engine crawlers—we were under a DDoS attack
Click "Delete," empty the Recycle Bin, and the file is gone forever? It's a common misconception. In fact, data remains on the disk long after the operating system no longer "sees" it. Photos, documents, correspondence—all of this can resurface at the most unexpected moment, when the computer falls into the wrong hands.
When you enter your bank card number on an online store website, your data passes through dozens of servers and routers. Along the way from your device to the final server, the information can be intercepted at any point. This is why security protocols exist—they convert readable data into an encrypted sequence of characters.