1. Executive Summary Business Email Compromise is evolving into a synthetic trust crisis. For years, enterprises treated BEC as an email security and finance approval problem. That view is now too narrow. In 2026, AI-enabled fraud can combine polished language, cloned voices, realistic video, stolen identity signals, compromised accounts, and trusted business context to manipulate employees into approving payments, changing vendor banking details, releasing credentials, or bypassing normal escalation paths. The financial exposure is already large enough to justify board attention. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report recorded 1,008,597 complaints and more than $20.877 bil…
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