A quarter of phishing emails bypass Office 365 security

Email phishing is one of the most often used – and most successfully used – attack vectors that lead to cybersecurity incidents and breaches. Microsoft is the most impersonated brand “Cloud based email, with all of its benefits, has u… Continue reading A quarter of phishing emails bypass Office 365 security

Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters

Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the document’s relationship file (xml.rels). The trick has been spotted being use… Continue reading Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters

Avanan raises $25 million to revolutionize how businesses secure SaaS email and collaboration

Avanan has raised $25 million in Series B funding from existing investors StageOne Ventures, Magma Venture Partners and Greenfield Partners (a TPG Growth investment platform). Avanan’s customer base has increased 10-fold in the last 12 months, protecti… Continue reading Avanan raises $25 million to revolutionize how businesses secure SaaS email and collaboration

Avanan raises $25 million Series B to secure cloud business apps

Avanan, a startup that protects organizations cloud applications from cyberattacks, announced Monday that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. The company’s platform integrates multiple security vendors and lets customers choose which solutions they want to protect their software-as-a-service (SaaS) business apps. The company deploys the customers’ selected security solutions, from names like McAfee, Symantec and Check Point, via the cloud. The offering is meant to provide organizations with protection from online trickery in a world where phishing attacks have spilled beyond email into work organization services like Slack, Google’s G Suite, Microsoft Office 365, Box and others. The platform protects customers from “phishing attacks, malicious content, data leakage, account takeover and more,” the company says. “Companies that use SaaS-based email and collaboration platforms quickly realize that hackers find ways to bypass their security,” said Avanan CEO and co-founder Gil Friedrich in press release. “By connecting directly to […]

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Office 365 users targeted by phishers employing simple HTML tricks

Phishers are using a simple but effective trick to fool Microsoft’s NLP-based anti-phishing protections and Office 365 users into entering their login credentials into spoofed login pages. The phishing emails landing in targets’ inboxes war… Continue reading Office 365 users targeted by phishers employing simple HTML tricks