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Forrester Webinar: Risk of Third-Party Impersonation & BEC Scams

Ever since the first spam email message, we have been at war with cyber criminals, who seek to subvert our email communications. We are experiencing an online arms race: As anti-spam solutions improve, criminals find ways around these defenses. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is an area where the criminals have the upper hand against traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs). ...
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What is Business Email Compromise?

    Transcript    I recently read a press release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that reported more than $12 billion in financial fraud losses from a vector they call business email compromise. Here at Agari, we think of business email compromise as any attack which claims to be someone you know and trust, and is attempting some kind of...
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What is Account Takeover?

  Transcript   Account takeover is a type of attack technique where a cybercriminal will initially compromise an email account, and then use that legitimate email account to launch subsequent attacks such as business email compromise, and spear phishing. Agari stops email account takeover by scrutinizing the sender of the email sent to the...
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What is Spear Phishing?

VP Channel Marketing, Mandeep Khera, discusses why traditional security controls cannot stop modern spear phishing attacks.
On-Demand Webinar

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...
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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...
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Scarlet Widow Part 1: Breaking Hearts for Profit

Table of Contents Who is Scarlet Widow? Femmes Fictionale and Counterfeit Romeos The Long Con: Making Moves for Money Starry Eyes for Starling Michael Up Close and Personal: The Case of "Robert Blackwell" ...
Datasheet

Fortra’s Training and Response Bundle Datasheet

Threats will persist if SOC teams are overloaded and unprepared to review reported emails and provide feedback, especially if they’re understaffed. Fortra’s Training and Response Bundle stops email threats by delivering world-class Security Awareness Training and Integrated Response, a managed service that ensures advanced email threats are identified, easily reported, and quickly mitigated.
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Email Security Enterprise Services

Image Business Challenge Agari’s cloud-based security solutions allow you to stop and respond to BEC and phishing attacks on your employees and protect your customers from phishing attacks. Agari’s Customer Enablement and Support organization is committed to the success of our customers and works to ensure Agari customers achieve...
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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...
Case Study

Los Angeles-Based Large Credit Union Eradicates Phishing Attacks

Executive Summary Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) was in the crosshairs of email scammers. Its brand was constantly being spoofed, putting its members at risk of being defrauded. The CTO prioritized email security as part of his broader risk management strategy, and selected Agari as his partner. That was more than a decade ago. Today, domain spoofing is at near-zero....
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Anatomy of a Compromised Account

Credential phishing leads to compromised accounts, and compromised accounts lead to more credential phishing. In order to uncover the mechanics, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division seeded more than 8,000 phishing sites with fake credentials and then monitored what happened next. In this report, you’ll discover more about how cybercriminals access and use compromised accounts...