Imagine a 30-staff audit firm in Tanjong Pagar. A finance officer receives an email from the managing partner—same address, same signature, same tone of urgency. The attached invoice looks routine. But when the officer clicks the attachment, nothing happens. Unbeknownst to them, the file was a malicious payload designed to initiate a $50,000 fraudulent transfer. The reason the attack failed? The firm had deployed an advanced endpoint security solution that intercepted the threat before it could execute. This near-miss is a stark reminder that Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks don’t rely on obvious malware—they exploit trust, and they often slip straight past traditional antivirus.
