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New England is known for lobster.  But lately, it is known for the lobsters that went missing.  Thieves allegedly stole a truckload of lobster valued at $400,000 from a Massachusetts facility earlier in December.  The scheme was complex, according to Dylan Rexing, chief executive of Rexing Companies, the logistics firm that was coordinating the shipment.

The first part allegedly involved a phishing scam, and not of the seafood kind.  According to Rexing, a culprit ever-so-slightly altered the em

Red Sky Alliance information sharing portal provided data about a member falling for a business email compromise (BEC).  Attackers sent a payment request spoofing a well-known local contractor by changing TLD from .COM to .US.  In total, 113 additional domains were registered by the same actors in August-November 2019.

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On 26 November 2019, a Red Sky Alliance member shared a fraud report regarding a local construction company email which was spoofed.  The attackers convinced the member’s pr