Multiple federal agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) warning the food and agriculture sector about incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) tactics to steal food shipments.
The advisory was issued on Dec. 15 by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In a BEC attack, an employee receives an email that appears official but, in reality, was sent by an impostor attempting to trick the entity for information or money.
The advisory focuses on criminals who use BEC to impersonate employees of legitimate companies to order food products. “The victim company fulfills the order and ships the goods, but the criminals do not pay for the products,” the advisory states….