email security
Impersonation, sender forgery and corporate email spoofing top the charts
This Q4 of 2018 was a busy period for phishing scammers. INKY researchers saw a spike in email volume this time of year as people use email to gather their receipts from …
Email authentication use growing steadily in every industry sector
U.S. federal government agencies and many major enterprises have made significant strides to thwart the spread of fake emails, a major cybersecurity attack vector. But many …
Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate
Account takeover-based (ATO) attacks now comprise 20 percent of advanced email attacks, according to Agari’s Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report. …
Cisco fixes serious DoS flaws in its email security appliances
Cisco has plugged a heap of security holes in many of its products, including two vulnerabilities (one critical) that open its email security appliances to denial of service …
Email security predictions: What we can expect in 2019
2018 shed a lot of light on how expensive successful phishing attacks can be, with the FBI reporting in July well over $12B in financial losses due to business email …
November 2018: Most wanted malware exposed
Check Point has published its latest Global Threat Index for November 2018. The index reveals that the Emotet botnet has entered the Index’s top 10 ranking after researchers …
Mitigating the risk of Office 365 account hijacking
Office 365 – the online, subscription-based version of Microsoft’s Office application suite – is one the most widely used enterprise cloud applications/services, …
Most impersonated brands in email attacks? Microsoft and Amazon
Nearly two-thirds of all advanced email attacks used emails impersonating Microsoft or Amazon, according to new research by Agari. Microsoft was impersonated in 36 percent of …
Firefox Monitor tells you whether your email was compromised in a data breach
After a few months of user testing, Mozilla has launched Firefox Monitor, a free online service that allows users to check whether their email address was involved in a …
Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise
FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to …
6.4 billion fake emails sent every day
The Valimail Q2 2018 Email Fraud Landscape shows that fake email continues to be a serious problem, with an estimated 6.4 billion fake emails sent every day. That total …
Telecom services: Patient zero for email-based attacks?
Organizations offering telecommunication services are seeing more advanced malware threats than organizations in other industries, Lastline researchers have found. They have …