Organizations that are relying on cloud-based email providers to secure their email systems and data should strongly consider adding a secure email gateway. Too many organizations are confusing the existence of security features with the efficacy of those features.
While moving enterprise email to the cloud has...
Protecting the organization against email-borne threats is only becoming more difficult as attackers create new and more clever ways to fool users and embed threats and malware.
The best SEG solutions provide better protection than older products or those that are available with an email platform...
The "deliberate actions" of a now-fired senior engineer at Customer.io put at risk email addresses of six client companies, including NFT marketplace OpenSea. The email delivery vendor did not specify how many individuals are now at elevated risk of phishing attacks.
Business email compromise (BEC) is when threat actors use email fraud to attack organizations, deceiving people into doing something they believe is helping the company. To request funds from victims, BEC threat actors conduct a variety of scams impersonating coworkers, vendors, or customers.
Despite the...
Business email compromise (BEC) is when threat actors use email fraud to attack organizations, deceiving people into doing something they believe is helping the company. To request funds from victims, BEC threat actors conduct a variety of scams impersonating coworkers, vendors, or customers.
Despite the...
The past few years have shown us a tremendous shift in BEC attacks, which changed its strategies from Executive Impersonation to opting to impersonate third party vendors and suppliers instead. This shift has given the threat actors a plethora of additional trusted identities to exploit.
This Threat Intelligence...
Emails shared with NFT marketplace OpenSea were disclosed to an unauthorized external party, the company is warning patrons. Anyone who shared an email address should be on guard for phishing attacks. The cause was a rogue employee at a third-party email delivery vendor.
For the seventh year in a row, business email compromise produced the largest losses of any type of cybercrime, according to Steve Dougherty of the U.S. Secret Service. He says organizations need to build and maintain relationships with law enforcement agencies before an attack happens.
Putting banners in emails to alert recipients to the potential dangers lurking in messages is a highly effective way to keep employees safe from phishing attacks. A lot of specialists in anti-phishing technology fall into a category analyst firm Gartner calls Cloud Email Security Supplements (CESSs). Every one of...
Abnormal Security is out with new financial crimes research, and it
shows that traditional business email compromise is evolving into
new forms of financial supply chain compromise. Crane Hassold
shares insights on the crimes and how best to detect, deter and
respond to them.
In a video interview with Information...
Though less eventful than its predecessor, 2021 was another blockbuster year for cybersecurity. With 2020’s scramble to enable remote working fading from memory, securing hybrid setups in the long term presented a new and complex challenge.
At the same time, cybercrime went prime time. High-profile cyber-attacks...
If you think the only way your network and devices can be compromised via email is phishing, think again!
A majority of data breaches are caused by attacks on the human layer, but email hacking is much more than phishing and launching malware. From code execution and clickjacking to password theft and rogue forms,...
This annual survey seeks to evaluate the current and projected impact of fraud on the finance and treasury environment. Practitioners from all industries are polled on their experiences with fraud and on the range of controls, safeguards and security practices employed to protect their financial assets and...
At the start of 2021, vaccine rollout let people imagine an end to pandemic disruption. But some of the world’s smartest cyber criminals weren’t interested in returning to business as normal. Over the first half of the year, a series of ransomware attacks on global infrastructure pushed cybersecurity to the top of...
Let’s face it: phishing threats are getting into your end users’ inbox.
Over 50% of phishing emails are bypassing existing email security EVERY month delivering phishing threats to tempt users to click and give up network or personal credentials, activate malware, or scams like business email compromise...
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