Cases

• Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed recently that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly common scam in which bad guys spoof email communications from executives at the victimized businesses in a bid to initiate unauthorized international wire transfers, to steal money.
• Con artists recently made off with a whopping $17.2 million from one of Omaha, Nebraska’s oldest companies, the employee-owned commodities trader The Scoular Co. According to Omaha.com, an executive with the 800-employee company was duped and wired the money in installments last summer to a bank in China after receiving emails ordering him to do so.