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The Cofense 2024 Annual State of Email Security Report sheds light on emerging trends in the cybersecurity threat landscape, highlighting areas of concern and indicating where your security team should focus in the coming year.   The data that informs this report sends a clear message: secure email gateways (SEGs) are not evolving with the […]

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The Cofense 2024 Annual State of Email Security Report sheds light on emerging trends in the cybersecurity threat landscape, highlighting areas of concern and indicating where your security team should focus in the coming year.   The data that informs this report sends a clear message: secure email gateways (SEGs) are not evolving with the […]

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Each phishing campaign that Cofense Intelligence analyzes is given a title which includes a theme. This theme is important because it characterizes the campaign and provides insight into the threat actor’s intentions. Knowing that a phishing email targeting the hospitality industry is themed after Travel Assistance rather than a generic Finance theme is significant as […]

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This should come as no surprise, but email is the #1 attack vector used by cybercriminals. Do you know why? Because it works. Unsuspecting users are tricked every day into clicking malicious emails that make it to their inbox. Yes, there are security measures, like secure email gateways (SEGs) that stop some threats. But did […]

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By Nathaniel Raymond The importance of fast and efficient shipping solutions has increased for households and businesses. This is especially true during the holiday season when demand for shipping services is high. Cofense Intelligence asked whether malicious shipping-themed emails increased during the holiday season. This sparked a three-year trend analysis from 2021 to 2023 that […]

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By: Dylan Duncan Threat actors are using employee’s annual responsibilities like open enrollment, 401k updates, salary adjustments, and even employee satisfaction surveys as lures to steal credentials. Most of these responsibilities tend to fall towards the end of the year, which is subjective to the calendar the employer uses. Employees typically expect, and in some […]

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With continued economic uncertainty, combined with a predicted $9.5 trillion in damages from cybercrime in 2024, organizations will once again have to decide where they place their resources to protect their business. And as we continue to see, secure email gateways (SEGs) are still unreliable as a main source of email security, as they can […]

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With continued economic uncertainty, combined with a predicted $9.5 trillion in damages from cybercrime in 2024, organizations will once again have to decide where they place their resources to protect their business. And as we continue to see, secure email gateways (SEGs) are still unreliable as a main source of email security, as they can […]

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By Max Gannon QR codes in the phishing threat landscape are a major topic of interest and worth paying particularly close attention to, despite how insignificant they were earlier this year. QR codes change the attack vector and enable threat actors to trick victims into using their personal phones which are typically not protected by […]

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By Max Gannon QR codes in the phishing threat landscape are a major topic of interest and worth paying particularly close attention to, despite how insignificant they were earlier this year. QR codes change the attack vector and enable threat actors to trick victims into using their personal phones which are typically not protected by […]

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