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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...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Phishing Simulation & Training
Remote Workforce Protection
Cloud Email Security
Email Security for G-Suite
Email Security for Office 365
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Preventing Phishing Attacks:  The Dangers of Two-Factor Authentication

Mon, 06/08/2020
Are you protecting your remote workers against an endless barrage of COVID-19 related phishing attacks by requiring 2-factor authentication (2FA) to log into employee email accounts? Smart move—just don't let it give you a false sense of security.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Account Takeover
Consumer Phishing
Spear Phishing
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COVID-19 Credential Phishing Scams: Feeding Off Coronavirus Fears

Tue, 04/28/2020
Since the beginning of February, we have seen more than a 3,000% increase in Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks targeting our customers. The spike in attacks is as logical as it is repugnant. With an estimated 75 million employees more reliant than ever on email during the largest "work-from-home experiment" in history, phishing scammers and other threat actors seem hellbent on exploiting...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Consumer Phishing
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Phishing Simulation & Training
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DMARC and Lookalike Domains: How to Protect Your Customers from Getting Duped

Fri, 02/07/2020
Hint: DMARC Alone Won't Cut It Think the prospect of cybercriminals using your domains to launch phishing attacks sounds bad for your brand? Just wait until you hear the latest on lookalike domains. Over the last few months, researchers have been discovering a troubling number of phishing sites that feature domains meant to impersonate leading brands in a variety of industries. Sometimes referred...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
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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...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Phishing Simulation & Training
Phishing Incident Response
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Microsoft Office 365 + Secure Email Cloud: All You Need in a Cloud-First World

Mon, 11/04/2019
You’ve heard the statistics…more than 70% of all business users will be provisioned with cloud office applications in the next two years, including email. It’s an overdue modernization that eliminates physical infrastructure to drive cost savings and integrate services for improved productivity Chasing this move, cybercriminals intent on account takeover are evolving their tactics, targeting end...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Security for Office 365
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How to Prevent Phishing Attacks that Target Your Customers with DMARC and Office 365

Thu, 09/26/2019
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the Microsoft Security blog and has been republished here. You already know that email is the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. But what you might not know is that without a standard email security protocol called Domain Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance ( DMARC ), your organization is open to the phishing attacks that...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Security for Office 365
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How to Stop Phishing Message Voicemail Attacks

Tue, 09/24/2019
At Agari we often talk about the evolving nature of advanced email attacks and the identity deception tactics that go with them. These attacks bypass legacy controls and like a magician delighting a curious audience, they trick the human psyche by targeting core human emotions such as fear, anxiety and curiosity. Of course, the magic in this case comes with ill intent. A good example of a...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Consumer Phishing
Spear Phishing
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From One to Many: Scattered Canary Evolves from One-Man Startup to BEC Enterprise

Tue, 06/04/2019
There is no denying that business email compromise (BEC) is big business, with losses exceeding a billion dollars in the United States in the last year alone. Globally, BEC attacks have cost more than $13 billion in the last five years. Chances are likely that you’ve probably been a recipient of one of these social-engineered emails yourself. But the question remains… who is behind these...
ACID Research
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
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Quick, Urgent, Request: Agari Research Reveals Top Ten Subject Lines Used for BEC

Mon, 05/13/2019
You likely have a fraudulent email from a business email compromise (BEC) scammer sitting in your inbox, and you may not realize it. However, recent research from the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) has shown that these advanced phishing attacks increasingly possess a handful of commonalities, making them easier to spot—which is good news considering their popularity. There are more BEC...
ACID Research
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
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Protecting our Clients from Email Spoofing: Our DMARC Journey

Tue, 03/26/2019
This post originally appeared on the Armadillo Blog and has been lightly edited for clarity. Most organisations have been successful in blocking malicious emails targeted at their employees, at least to some extent. Various on-premise and cloud providers exist to take care of anti-spam, anti-virus, reputation scores, and advanced features such as sandboxing of executables. As a service provider...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM
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Watch a Short Demo of Agari Phishing Response

Tue, 02/12/2019
Agari Phishing Response prioritizes reported incidents, automating investigative analysis and triage, to elevate the most suspicious to the top of the list. Then, it reduces manual efforts with remediation workflows to accelerate time-to-containment.
Advanced Threat Protection
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Watch a Short Demo of Agari Phishing Defense

Fri, 02/01/2019
Agari Phishing Defense uses predictive, artificial intelligence and real-time insights from trillions of emails each year, and we stop 99.987% of the attacks that secure email gateways missed. How? Let's take a look.
Advanced Threat Protection
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M&As Put Your Company at Risk for BEC Losses and Data Breach Liability

Thu, 01/17/2019
Mergers and acquisitions can build your company's value overnight, but business email compromise (BEC) and data breaches can tear it down just as quickly. Too often, M&A announcements are followed by waves of BEC attacks against the companies involved, or by news that the target company was the victim of a data breach. To get the most value from a merger or acquisition, you need to know how to...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Spear Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Account Takeover: The Evolution of Advanced Cyberattacks

By Markus Jakobsson
Targeted email attacks continue to escalate as organizations deal with increasing numbers of phishing, spear phishing and ransomware attempts. But another attack vector—account takeovers—is affecting 44% of organizations and is posing a significant risk. Watch this webinar to learn how: These attacks lead to large-scale data breaches and financial losses; How organizations can identify account...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Ransomware
Spear Phishing
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Email Phishing Scam Continues to Target College Students

Thu, 02/22/2018
According to a public service announcement issued by the FBI, college students across the United States continue to be targeted in a common email phishing scam that lures students in with the promise of employment. It works like this: email Scammers advertise phony job opportunities on college employment websites or students receive emails on their student accounts recruiting them for fictitious...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Spear Phishing
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
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Understanding Email Identity

Wed, 10/12/2016
One of the things that often stumps even the most security conscious companies is knowing all the third-party email service providers they are working with. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible for these organizations to protect their customers from phishing attacks if they don’t even know who is sending legitimate email on their behalf. And this gets even more challenging when you...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Security Professional Pain Points – and How to Solve Them

Fri, 05/20/2016
Ask any security professional what the number one pain point is within their organization, and chances are they’ll say ‘user behavior’…with ‘malware’ coming in as a very close second. And while these issues are very different on the surface, they do have one thing in common: both are often the cause of high-profile data breaches, largely in part to the increased use of spear phishing email...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Spear Phishing
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Press Release

New Cybersecurity Book Highlights Growing Threat of Social Engineering

Book Offers Tools and Techniques to Prevent Social Engineering-based Email Attacks SAN MATEO, Calif. – Dec. 13, 2016 – Agari , a leading cybersecurity company, today announced the release of a new book by Agari Chief Scientist Markus Jakobsson and other cybersecurity thought leaders, Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams . The book describes the increased use of social engineering for email...
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Don’t Let Your Customers Be Fooled By Cousin Domains

Tue, 12/15/2015
In the last five years, we’ve all become far too familiar with it – hackers spoofing a company’s domain and therefore tarnishing the brand, bad actors attempting to infect our computers with malware, and criminals sending millions of spam messages. As if this isn’t enough, now there is a whole group of people working to outsmart companies AND their customers by using cousin domains to fool...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM