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DMARC Revisited: Email Authentication in 2024

Implementing DMARC is one of the simplest ways to prevent email spoofing and ensure consistent email deliverability. Agari DMARC Protection will lead you through a safe and efficient DMARC implementation with features that allow you to: Catalogue and authenticate all legitimate senders–both 3rd-party and internal Navigate past common authentication pitfalls Comply with today’s major email provider...

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Protecting Remote Employees from Phishing and BEC Attacks

Thu, 07/28/2022

Email is even more crucial as a collaboration tool while we are all working from home and taking other precautions to stay safe and healthy. Hackers, cybercriminals, and other bad actors are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic for their own personal gain, and it’s your job to ensure your workforce is protected from harm. How do you enable the productivity of your now remote workforce, while...

Securing Office 365: How to Protect Against Targeted Email Attacks

Thu, 07/28/2022

This webinar from Agari and Osterman Research explains why organizations with Office 365 need robust email security and how to implement it cost-effectively.

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

Thu, 07/28/2022

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). According to Agari’s...

What is Business Email Compromise?

Tue, 07/26/2022

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 theft. The most classic example is a criminal figures out...

What is Account Takeover?

Tue, 07/26/2022

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 recipient. They'll leverage insights from over two trillion...

PANEL: It's the (Decision) Economy, Stupid: Big Data Science and Security

Tue, 07/26/2022

Hear panel participants discuss how leading organizations are using data science to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.

Key Insights from the Email Fraud and Identity Deception Trends Report

By Mike Paiko

Discover the latest data about Business Email Compromise (BEC) and email fraud revealed in the benchmark Email Fraud and Identity Trends Report.

Cosmic Lynx Threat Disorder: The Rise of Russian BEC

By Crane Hassold

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.

Shining a Light on BEC Risk and Fraud: How Active Engagement Closes the BEC Intelligence Gap

By Crane Hassold

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...

How and Why COVID-19 is Being Used for BEC and Phishing Attacks

Mon, 07/25/2022

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 the...

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 specific problems and I'm bringing Fortra's...

Agari Identifies First-ever Reported Russian BEC Cybercriminal Ring Targeting Executives in 46 Countries Across Six Continents

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (July 7, 2020) -- Agari , the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, revealed today details of the threat actor group dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the first-ever reported Russian cybercriminal ring to conduct business email compromise (BEC) phishing scams. This is a historic shift to the global email threat landscape and portends new and sophisticated...

Blunting BEC Capers that Continue to Target and Devastate SMBs and Enterprises

In his guest blog on The Last Watchdog, John Wilson looks at why Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are on the rise, how they are orchestrated, and what organizations can do to stop this all-too-common attack vector. Excerpt: "BEC is a growing concern, and attackers have taken full advantage of the upheaval the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to ramp up their efforts. These campaigns are hard to...

Phishing Sustain Near- Record Levels Through the First Half of 2021

Agari by Fortra features in APWG's Q2 Phishing Activity Trends Report. Here are some highlights: APWG saw 222,127 attacks in June 2021, the third worst month in APWG’s reporting history. Financial institutions and social media sectors were the most frequently victimized. Increases in vishing and smishing continue to be observed. Vishing is phishing advertised via voice messages, and smishing is...

How International Scam Artists Pulled Off an Epic Theft of Covid Benefits

Covid-19 provided ample opportunities for threat actors to exploit weaknesses in online systems. In this article by NBC News, spokespeople from Agari explain how one threat actor group, Scattered Canary, used email to fraudulently claim Covid relief unemployment benefits potentially worth millions of US dollars. Read the full article here . Agari’s Cyber Intelligence Division is dedicated to...

Trust 2021 Empowers Cybersecurity Organizations with New Insights and Actions to Stop Phishing

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON (April 15, 2021) – Interest in the Trust 2021 conference soared in the wake of the newly released FBI IC3 fraud report that stated business email compromise (BEC) and other email-based threats accelerated. An analysis of the reports showed that financially motivated fraud added up to $3.5 billion in losses, equaling 70% of all cybercrime losses in 2020. CISO...

Are Organizations Neglecting Business Email Compromise?

While ransomware is rightly positioned as the most immediate cybersecurity threat, businesses shouldn't underestimate the threat business email compromise (BEC) attacks present to organizations. In this article, Ciaran Rafferty, Managing Director,, discusses the release of the NCSC’s annual review for 2021 and looks at the implications for email security. Originally published in Computing Security...