Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to business communication, email is still king. Cybercriminals are aware of this fact, and they’re constantly perfecting their attacks to successfully evade the built-in security defenses of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. In th… Continue reading How to make email safe for business
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
Zix announced the release of a report which finds attackers are rapidly adopting new techniques to target users. “Cybercrime is exploding in 2021 and if there is anything that could be learned over the past year, it is that threat hunters are essential… Continue reading Attackers rapidly adopting new techniques to target users
Half of US organizations are not effective at countering phishing and ransomware threats, Osterman Research research reveals. The findings come from a study compiled from interviews with 130 cybersecurity professionals in mid-sized and large organizati… Continue reading Half of organizations are ineffective at countering phishing and ransomware threats
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are one of the most financially damaging cyber crimes and have been on the rise over the past year. This is according to GreatHorn report, which revealed that spoofed email accounts or websites were the most expe… Continue reading 71% of organizations experienced BEC attacks over the past year
The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021, after landmark increases of 2020 in which reported phishing websites doubled. The number of reported phishing website… Continue reading Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021
Agari researchers entered unique credentials belonging to fake personas into phishing sites posing as widely used enterprise applications, and waited to see what the phishers would do next with the compromised accounts. They found that 23% of all accou… Continue reading What happens to email accounts once credentials are compromised?
People click on links and attachments and will, unfortunately, keep clicking even if they should know better. They’ll click for the chance of winning a holiday, or even something as cheap as a $2 cup of coffee. No amount of awareness training is going … Continue reading Attackers can teach you to defend your organization against phishing
Business email compromise (BEC) threats are one of the many tried-and-tested tactics cybercriminals use to target their victims. These tend to be brief messages with only a few lines of text but no URLs, attached files or other elements that can be sca… Continue reading The rise of non-English language spear phishing emails
The number of phishing attacks grew through 2020, fully doubling over the course of the year. Attacks peaked in October 2020, with a high of 225,304 new phishing sites appearing in that month alone, breaking all previous monthly records, according to A… Continue reading Successful BEC attacks become 56% more costly