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What is Consumer Phishing?

    Transcript    So, consumer phishing is the process of a cybercriminal sending an email to a consumer that is impersonating a large brand. Agari was one of the co-authors of an internet protocol called DMARC, which implements email authentication to stop phishing on a brand by brand, actually a domain by domain basis. So, the way it works is that you publish a...
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Silent Starling and the Emergence of VEC

Silent Starling is a newly discovered cybercriminal group comprised of Nigerian cybercriminals, intent on scamming as much as they can from their victims through a new attack type named vendor email compromise (VEC). Watch this webinar to learn: What VEC is and how it differs from other major attacks Why VEC is the largest threat for your supply chain Which of your employees are most likely to...
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Using Agari in Messaging Operations

    Transcript    The number one email-based challenge that businesses face today is stopping the advanced identity-based attack. This is the attack where the bad guy impersonates one of your high-value employees and then uses that impersonated email to either get money out of the company via a wire transfer, or to get credentials and get into the company systems to...
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Cosmic Lynx Threat Disorder: The Rise of Russian BEC

In this webinar, Agari Sr. Director of Threat Research, Crane Hassold discusses Cosmic Lynx, the first-ever reported Russian BEC criminal organization, and how the group has significantly impacted the email threat landscape with sophisticated, high-dollar phishing attacks.
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Shining a Light on BEC Risk and Fraud: How Active Engagement Closes the BEC Intelligence Gap

Business Email Compromise (BEC) costs organizations like yours $9 billion every year. These hard-to-detect phishing schemes drive more than 40% of all cybercrime losses. But threat intelligence and fraud prevention teams have had little visibility into the scope of their risk, the BEC attack cycle, or threat actors’ objectives and methods. That’s about to change. Agari Active Defense leverages an...
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Agari DMARC Protection Explainer

Transcript Email remains the most popular method for businesscommunications. It's also the number one target for cyber attacks. And one malicious email is all it takes to destroy years ofbuilding a trusted relationship with your custom versuswhich is why DMARC is an essential email securitysolution that prevents cyber attacks from hijacking yourdomains for email spoofing, executive...
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How and Why COVID-19 is Being Used for BEC and Phishing Attacks

Phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks always take advantage of natural disasters and personal misfortune to target even the most vulnerable among us. This time is no different as we are all experiencing the COVID-19 outbreak, but the tactics can be spotted and defeated. In this webinar Crane Hassold, Agari's former Senior Director of Threat Research, provides an inside look into...
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Using Agari in Marketing

    Transcript Email security is often overlooked when thinking about brand protection, but it's actually very pivotal. On one hand, I want to make sure as a CMO that I am disallowing anyone from co-opting my brand to spoof consumers or customers. That's very important to me. On the other hand, I want to make sure that my email, my legitimate message that I'm sharing...
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Farm Bureau Bank

"Since email security is so important, we work very hard to ensure the transport of email is done efficiently as we as securely." - Howard Gordon, Vice President and Information Security Officer
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Informatica Gains Visibility into Threats by Using Fortra

Listen to Bill Burns, Chief Trust Officer and VP of Business Transformation for Informatica, speak about his experience working with Fortra's Agari.       Transcript  I'm Bill Burns, Chief Trust Officer and VP of Business Transformation for Informatica. I've been working with Fortra's Agari for about six years at previous companies, introducing them to solve...
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Customer Phishing Protection Couldn’t Be Easier with PhishLabs' Digital Risk Protection

It’s not news that cybercrime is a constant battle—large enterprises and small businesses everywhere are susceptible to a myriad of advanced email threats and socially engineered attacks, such as executive or brand impersonation. According to IC3’s Internet Crime Report, over $44 million in losses in 2021 were a direct result of malicious phishing and advanced email scams. Despite billions having...
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SMTPS: Securing SMTP and the Differences Between SSL, TLS, and the Ports They Use

What is the difference between SMTPS and SMTP? SMTPS uses additional SSL or TLS cryptographic protocols for improved security, and the extra "S" stands for SECURE! By default, SMTP to send email lacks encryption and can be used for sending without any protection in place, leaving emails with an SMTP setup susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks and...
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5 Big Myths about DMARC, Debunked

With email attacks contributing to billions of lost dollars each year, a growing number of organizations are adopting Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) in an effort to protect themselves and their customers from fraudsters. Adoption of DMARC has steadily gained traction since the onset of the pandemic, and the original email authentication protocols at the heart...