BIMI is going big time like never before—and brands won't want to get left behind. In a major announcement this week , Internet search giant Google revealed it has joined the AuthIndicators Working Group and committed to a pilot program for BIMI. For those unfamiliar with the term, Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is a standardized way for inboxes to display brand logos beside...

Receipts and invoices—two accounting powerhouses that require little introduction. But step a little further into the world of finance and accounts, and you can quickly become a fish out of water, as the terminology to this numerical land seems to multiply exponentially. That said, in some of our recent active defense engagements with BEC cybercriminals, we have observed a new way scammers are...

Cybercriminals increasingly use new forms of identity deception to launch an email attack to target your weakest link: humans. Call it a case of locking the back window while leaving the front door wide open. Throughout the last year, a number of reports have surfaced about sophisticated cyberattacks that are proving all too successful at circumventing the elaborate defenses erected against them...

Legacy email security systems are failing, as more enterprises migrate their emails to the cloud and cyber-attacks become more professional and difficult to detect. Companies in all industries and government agencies simply are not moving fast enough to counter the increasingly sophisticated threats like business email compromise (BEC) and account takeover attacks. The first part of this two-part...

When we think of business email compromise (BEC), the first thing that comes to mind is likely an executive spoof—an email sent to an employee from someone pretending to be the CEO or other high-profile executive. One of the things that people don’t traditionally think about is love, or more specifically, the role that romance victims play in the BEC game. Behind the Scenes with a Romance Scam...

With losses from business email compromise rising fast, the active defense movement is generating buzz—but what are the ramifications? Why just raise the shield without wielding the sword, too? Organizations in the United States shouldered over one billion in losses from BEC in the last year alone, so the notion of using active defense measures that strike back at fraudsters seems to be gaining...

What is the biggest obstacle right now to recruiting and retaining great talent? Simply put, there is not enough supply to meet demand—and there may not be any time soon. The most recent jobs data put the national unemployment rate at 3.6%, the lowest it’s been in half a century. Across the country, there are more open jobs than people without work . That means employers in industries from tech to...

Predictive, AI-based email security is proving to be remarkably effective at protecting against today's most advanced business email compromise (BEC) scams, phishing attacks, and other rapidly evolving email threats. But only when it's done right. According to the FBI, targeted email attacks doubled last year, leading to $1.2 billion in business losses . Nearly 30% of all email attacks are...

For many, there are few things more satisfying than receiving an email confirmation for a flight just booked to a tropical location for a much-needed vacation. Most people love traveling, especially to favorite destinations or to explore new locales. The opposite of that feeling? The immediate pang of anxiety a consumer feels when getting a notification for a ticket that they in fact never...

Creating a future where all of our customers can trust their inbox can push Agari engineers to the limits of available technologies. In fact, handling the scaling requirements of Cloud Email Protection has led our Sensor team to test some of the most advanced features of the Python programming language. To maintain quality while using these features, our team created some of the first approaches...

The statistics are astounding. Email remains the number one threat vector for data breaches, the point of entry for ninety-four percent of breaches. There is an attack every 39 seconds. Over 30% of phishing messages get opened, and 12% of users click on malicious links. As cybercrime becomes more advanced and bypasses the legacy controls put in place to defend against it, security must become more...

The secure email gateway (SEG) worked for decades, no doubt. It was truly the first line of defense against email-based threats that took advantage of people and technology to enable fraud. Those of us who have dedicated our lives to improving this industry are grateful for the work of companies like Symantec and Proofpoint, which have spent years protecting people and organizations from viruses...

Six months ago, Agari rolled out a brand new vision—a vision focused on the idea of trusting your inbox with the Secure Email Cloud . Combined with announcements about our new Agari Phishing Response product and the newly formed Agari Cyber Intelligence Division, this vision provided an opportunity for us to reshape our thinking around email security. Every single day since we shared that vision...

DMARC adoption rose a tepid 1% in the first quarter of the year, with the rate of growth slowing compared to the last three months of 2018, according to our latest report on email security trends. That said, nearly 90% of Fortune 500 businesses remain unprotected against email-based impersonation attacks targeting their customers, partners, and other businesses. But Australian companies lead their...

Cybercriminals have used email to scam more than $13 billion out of organizations since 2013, according to the most recent Internet Crime Report . Phishing is rising by the day, and despite advancing threat-detection technology, the problem is getting worse. Why? Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated at identifying targets and crafting messages that evade traditional secure email gateways...

Business email compromise (BEC) , phishing, and ransomware are growing ever-more targeted and personalized, changing the face of email security from an event that happens at email delivery to a continuous process of detection and remediation. As enterprises move email to the cloud, more of these attacks are never-before-seen, zero-day events targeting unreported security gaps. Others arrive as...

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...

A 25% spike in employee-reported phishing attacks during the first quarter of 2019 has increased the time required for security operations centers (SOCs) to respond to phishing incidents by as much as 32%—and the price tag is rising fast. According to the new Q2 2019 Email Fraud and Identity Deception Report from the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID), employees now report an average of 29...

A 300% increase in phishing attacks in just twelve months, with more than 40% launched using cloud-based email, URLs, or both. As many as 1.5 million malicious emails sent from hijacked Office 365 accounts on a monthly basis. Average losses of $2 million for the businesses they victimize—and $7.9 million in additional average costs when they result in a data breach. Unfortunately, these numbers...

In B2B email marketing, nothing says amateur hour like a landing page with the words "Not Secure" in the URL. A missing SSL certificate is bad enough, but it's the lack of something called " Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance " (DMARC) that could obliterate your KPIs and cost your company millions in brand reputation and revenue. As the CMO of a fast-growth technology...