🔴 Hackers Use AI-Assisted CEO Emails to Trick Finance Teams Into Sending $50,000 Payments

Threat actors are using AI-assisted phishing templates, executive impersonation, fake ServiceNow invoices, and fabricated email threads to pressure finance teams into authorizing fraudulent ACH payments worth nearly $50,000.

Microsoft detected more than one million messages in the campaign, demonstrating how business email compromise (BEC) operations are becoming more polished, scalable, and difficult to spot.

The United States received 87.7% of the campaign volume, indicating a broad effort to target organizations with U.S.-based finance and accounts-payable operations.