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Business email compromise is targeting accounting firms. Here’s how to fight back.
Accounting firms handle multiple clients’ money. That makes your vendor payment workflow a high-value target—and BEC scams often ride in disguised as “vendor updates.”
What the attacker is trying to change
- Vendor email domain (spoofed or look-alike sender)
- Bank details (requesting beneficiary changes)
- Invoice details that pressure approvals with urgency
How to stop it with reviewable signals
Vantirs connects to QuickBooks Online and fingerprints vendors based on payment history. When an invoice request doesn’t match historical behavior, the team receives contextual alerts to review before payment runs.
Next step: protect AP before the wire leaves
Start with QuickBooks fraud prevention or see how invoice fraud detection works.