
AI-Generated BEC Is Rising. Is Your Verification Process Keeping Up?
Business email compromise (BEC) never needed malware, a breached network, or a single line of code to succeed. It needs one thing: a payment approver who believes the request in front of them is real. That’s exactly why the numbers below should matter to anyone in finance or operations with wire transfer authority, not just to IT. In 2025 alone, BEC cost businesses $3.04 billion in reported losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), up from $2.77 billion the year

