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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This video interview with HelpSystems experts, John Wilson and John Grancarich, covers the latest email scams and how they impact your protection ecosystem.
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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 theft. The most...
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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 recipient. They'll leverage...
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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...
This video will showcase Clearswift and Agari feature updates, new threat report findings, and how new Fortra Email Security tools create a more robust email security solution.
In this presentation, we’ll reveal the latest from our 2022 Email Fraud and Identity Trends report, focusing on Customer Phishing and DMARC Enforcement.
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.
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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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...
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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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...
"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
Understanding The Threats
Today’s modern identity-based email attacks exploit the identity of trusted colleagues and brands. However, each varies in the tactics and techniques used. Understanding the differences will be critical in being able to effectively and accurately stop these attacks.
Customer Phishing: Cybercriminals use brand impersonation techniques such as domain spoofing and...