Guide
Fortra Named Top Player in 2024 Radicati Secure Email Market Quadrant Report
See why Fortra's Advanced Email Security was named a Top Player in Radicati's 2024 Market Quadrant for Secure Email.
Guide
Machine Learning Models in Cloud Email Protection
Traditional email security products struggle to detect email impersonation threats such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and spear phishing campaigns. These threats consistently bypass defenses that rely on signatures and policies like Secure Email Gateways and native-cloud email filters. This guide breaks down how Fortra uses advanced data science, including machine learning models, to find and mitigate attacks that slip past traditional email defenses.
Blog
Attacks Targeting Businesses on Social Media Jump 40% YoY
Wed, 11/23/2022
In this post, we discuss the industries most prone to attack on social media, and the top threat types found on those platforms.
Blog
Emails Reported as Malicious Reach Four-Quarter High in Q3
Wed, 11/23/2022
The volume of malicious emails reported in corporate inboxes has reached a four-quarter high, according to the latest data from Fortra's PhishLabs.
Guide
Scarlet Widow Part 2: BEC Bitcoin Laundry—Scam, Rinse, Repeat
While many cybercriminal gangs scam medium-sized and large corporations, Agari has now uncovered and documented the practices of a Nigeria-based scammer group, dubbed Scarlet Widow, that has evolved a different strategy focused on more vulnerable sectors such as school districts, universities, and nonprofits.
In this report, we uncover:
How Scarlet...
Datasheet
Agari Threat Intelligence Third-Party Integration
Strengthen Your Security Posture
With a continually evolving threat landscape, organizations are under increased pressure to manage security vulnerabilities. They often need to deploy multiple threat intelligence feeds to assist in this process by identifying common indicators of compromise (IOC) and indicators of attack (IOA) and then recommending the necessary steps to prevent attack or...
Datasheet
Fortra's Integration for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Why Integrated Email Threat Data Matters
Email is a primary vector for attacks on your business today—and email threats are evolving faster than ever. But actionable data about email attacks is often inaccessible to time-strapped security operations and incident response teams. That disconnect leaves your business vulnerable and unable to mitigate hidden email threats.
Improve Visibility with...
Blog
Agari Fall ' 20 Release Boosts CISO Confidence in Enterprise DMARC Deployment
Tue, 09/29/2020
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 kneecaps commerce,...
Blog
DMARC: How Phishing Rings Can Use Your Email Authentication Controls Against You
Thu, 07/23/2020
In the first reported case of its kind, a phishing ring in Eastern Europe is exploiting companies' own Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) controls to impersonate CEOs in business email compromise (BEC) scams worth millions.As detailed in our new threat actor dossier on a group we call Cosmic Lynx, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) has identified the...
Blog
Phishing: With Zero-Day Email Attacks Rising, Are Some Companies Giving Up the Fight?
Mon, 06/15/2020
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 individuals with an...
Blog
Phishing Attacks: Top 3 Reasons Healthcare Employees Are Prime Targets
Wed, 01/22/2020
A growing body of evidence suggests employees throughout the healthcare sector may be uniquely vulnerable to phishing attacks. If finding itself a growing target for cybercriminals weren’t bad enough, the industry is also seeing associated lawsuits piling up.
Montana-based Kalispell Regional Healthcare was recently hit with a suit after it disclosed that multiple employees had fallen victim to...