email security

36.9% of all emails received by businesses (20.5 billion) in 2024 were unwanted, according to Hornetsecurity’s analysis of 55.6+ billion emails processed through their …

Phishers have come up with a new trick for bypassing email security systems: corrupted MS Office documents. The spam campaign Malware hunting service Any.Run has warned last …

In this Help Net Security interview, Riaz Lakhani, CISO at Barracuda Networks, discusses the effectiveness of AI-based behavioural analysis in combating sophisticated email …

Although most organizations use emails with built-in security features that filter out suspicious messages, criminals always find a way to bypass these systems. With the …

Attackers looking for a way into organizations using Microsoft 365 can make an alert identifying unsolicited (and thus potential phishing) emails “disappear”. …

Two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-42009, CVE-2024-42008) affecting Roundcube could be exploited by attackers to steal users’ emails and contacts, email …

Email attacks have surged by 293% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, according to Acronis. The number of ransomware detections was also on the …

Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to overwrite files on its Secure Email Gateways (CVE-2024-20401) and change the password of any user on …

The maintainers of the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-39929) that currently affects around 1.5 million public-facing servers and …

Compared to the last quarter of 2023, data breaches rose from 81M to 435M in Q1 2024. That’s a 5-fold increase in just a few months. One of the most common ways data breaches …

Over the past few years, traditional phishing messages — with their pervasive linguistic errors, thinly-veiled malicious payloads, and often outlandish pretexts — have been on …

56% of all 2023 claims were a result of funds transfer fraud (FTF) or business email compromise (BEC), highlighting the importance of email security as a critical aspect of …