Wire fraud · CFO impersonation
Finance ↔ Exec interface
Coercive request, out-of-band channel, signed urgency. Lands hardest
where budget authority overlaps with public press exposure.
Top exposure 81%
Cohort fit Finance · n=24
Mitigation OOB verify · approval-chain
OAuth consent phishing
Admin-scope creep
M365 / Google / GitHub admin overlap, sales-tool sprawl,
long-lived PATs. Phishing-resistant MFA on admin scopes is
the lever.
Top exposure 74%
Cohort fit Engineering · n=38
Mitigation FIDO2 · scope review
IT impersonation
Helpdesk · password reset
Familiar-pretext password-reset requests, vendor-portal access.
Trust-network exploit zone — verification protocol is the fix.
Top exposure 71%
Cohort fit Operations · n=38
Mitigation OOB on resets