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Cloudflare announced that it plans to make enterprise-grade email security tools available to Cloudflare customers, once Cloudflare’s acquisition of Area 1 Security closes. Email continues to be one of the biggest security threats that organizations of… Continue reading Cloudflare announces email security products to prevent phishing and malware attacks
Cloudflare announced that it has agreed to acquire Area 1 Security for approximately $162 million. Area 1 Security’s cloud-native platform, which works seamlessly with any email offering, stops phishing attacks by preemptively discovering and eliminati… Continue reading Cloudflare acquires Area 1 Security to expand phishing protection and threat intelligence capabilities
Area 1 Security published the results of a study analyzing over 31 million threats across multiple organizations and industries, with new findings and warnings issued by technical experts that every organization should be aware of. A key aspect to prev… Continue reading Key email threats and the high cost of BEC
Absolute monsters. Wine-themed domain registrations rose once COVID-19 lockdowns took hold, some of them malicious and used in phishing campaigns, Recorded Future and Area 1 Security said in a joint report out Wednesday. “As the interest in virtual happy hours and get-togethers increased so did the increase in wine-themed domain registrations,” the report states. Amid the COVID outbreak, alcohol has proven itself a target for hackers — but it hasn’t been clear before that scammers were trying to exploit people who were staying home and imbibing more. Alcohol delivery service Drizly, for instance, suffered a breach in July, while ransomware hit liquor and wine maker Brown-Forman around the same time. Recorded Future observed a mild jump in wine domain registrations in March of 2020, from the usual 3,000 to 4,000 per month up to nearly 5,500. April saw a bigger leap, to almost 7,200, and the numbers took off in […]
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A sophisticated and highly targeted Microsoft Office 365 phishing campaign is being aimed at C-suite executives, executive assistants and financial departments across numerous industries. “The activity we observed was relatively large in comparis… Continue reading Ongoing Office 365-themed phishing campaign targets executives, assistants, financial departments
Over the six-month period from March to August 2020, over 925,000 malicious emails managed to bypass Office 365 defenses and well-known secure email gateways (SEGs), an Area 1 Security study reveals. How criminals bypass Office 365 defenses Attackers i… Continue reading Attackers finding new ways to exploit and bypass Office 365 defenses
Phishers are using a bogus GDPR compliance reminder to trick recipients – employees of businesses across several industry verticals – into handing over their email login credentials. The lure “The attacker lures targets under the pret… Continue reading Phishers are targeting employees with fake GDPR compliance reminders
Area 1 Security announced the appointment of noted go-to-market sales and channel leader, Steve Pataky, as Chief Revenue Officer. Pataky will helm all of Area 1’s global sales efforts as well as expanded partnership initiatives to scale and accel… Continue reading Steve Pataky appointed Chief Revenue Officer at Area 1 Security
Joint Solution Combines Seamless, End-to-End Encryption with Advanced Cloud Email Security WASHINGTON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 11, 2020 — Virtru, the new standard in data protection, and Area 1 Security, the first and only preemptive email … Continue reading Virtru and Area 1 Security Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Cloud Email Protection
With fewer than 100 days left until Election Day, a new report from Area 1 Security reveals that states are still in widely varying stages of cybersecurity readiness. Key findings include: The majority (53.24 percent) of state and local election admini… Continue reading Assessing the email security controls used by 10,000 U.S. state and local election administrators