The 2020 Election Security Poll delves into the issue of election security from the voters’ perspective. Findings include:
69% of registered voters say that foreign interference in 2020 U.S. presidential election campaigns is a threat to U.S. democracy
59% of respondents said receiving a fake/phishing email from one campaign would negatively impact their donation to other...
CISOs and their teams are about to get some serious performance enhancers in their high-stakes race against email security threats.
According to the FBI, phishing campaigns, business email compromise (BEC) scams, and other advanced email attacks have resulted in $26 billion in business losses over the course of three years. Then 2020 happened.
With 75 million corporate...
What is email spoofing, how does it work, and why is it so dangerous to your company? We’ll explain everything you need to proactively stop attackers from spoofing your email address.
Email Spoofing: What Is It?
Email spoofing is when a fraudster forges an email header’s ‘From’ address to make it appear as if it was sent by someone else, usually a known contact like a high...
Office 365 phishing emails come in common patterns. I'll list them here and also cover Office 365 anti-phishing features for prevention, detection, and response.
Today, the typical Office 365 phishing emails direct users to fake Office 365 Sign-in pages. The victim submits their credentials, effectively handing over their password. Fraudsters use that login to access the...
With cyber gangs leveraging business email compromise (BEC) attacks that actively exploit their targets' level of DMARC adoption, CISOs have been ratcheting up email security.
Until now, the need to dial up defenses against imposters posing as senior executives in email attacks has been increasingly forcing legitimate business correspondence into quarantine. The chain reaction...
A seismic shift in the email threat landscape has CISOs bracing for sophisticated new forms of business email compromise (BEC) scams, as phishing's center of gravity begins to tilt from West African email scammers toward Russian and Eastern European cybercrime lords.
As detailed in our new threat actor dossier on a threat group we call Cosmic Lynx, the Agari Cyber Intelligence...
Amid a troubling rise in zero-day phishing attacks, recent research suggests that some companies may be making an ill-advised shift away from blocking advanced email threats to responding to them post-delivery. If true, the capitulation couldn't come at a worse time. Since January, cybercriminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak have been targeting businesses and...
Since the beginning of February, we have seen more than a 3,000% increase in Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks targeting our customers. The spike in attacks is as logical as it is repugnant. With an estimated 75 million employees more reliant than ever on email during the largest "work-from-home experiment" in history, phishing scammers and other threat actors seem hellbent...
Agari Phishing Response prioritizes reported incidents, automating investigative analysis and triage, to elevate the most suspicious to the top of the list. Then, it reduces manual efforts with remediation workflows to accelerate time-to-containment.
LONDON – December 4, 2018 – Agari, the next-generation Secure Email Cloud that restores trust to the inbox, today announced Agari Phishing Response during Black Hat Europe. Agari Phishing Response is the only purpose-built phishing incident response solution for post-delivery remediation in Microsoft Office 365 environments. Agari Phishing Response eliminates error-prone and...
In the second in our series of blogs on the Fundamentals of Phishing we will explore how to identify fraudulent emails.
Not that long ago, phishing attempts were quite primitive and often full of errors, and it was easier for consumers to identify when something was amiss. In addition, consumers weren’t accessing their inboxes from multiple devices and mobiles, nor did they...