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How to Protect Against BEC from Inception to Inbox

By Monica Delyani on Mon, 05/06/2024
What Is Business Email Compromise (BEC)? Business email compromise (BEC) is a dangerous and pervasive type of email spoofing that targets businesses, aiming to damage them in some financial or reputation-based way. It does so via deceptive tactics, such as CEO or executive impersonation, allowing BEC attacks to evade security filters, leading to fraud, compromised accounts, and data leakage. Other...
Cloud Email Security
AI-Email-Solutions
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The Science Behind the Scenes: How Machine Learning Combats Phishing Attacks and BEC

Thu, 07/20/2023
Because email remains the most ubiquitous form of business communication, it continues to be a favorite attack vector for cybercriminals. Email has always been vulnerable because it was not originally designed with security or privacy in mind. As a result, email security vendors emerged to protect this critical communication channel. In the early days, many vendors used signature or reputation...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Cloud Email Security
Agari Machine learning
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Machine Learning Models in Cloud Email Protection

Traditional email security products struggle to detect email impersonation threats such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and spear phishing campaigns. These threats consistently bypass defenses that rely on signatures and policies like Secure Email Gateways and native-cloud email filters. This guide breaks down how Fortra uses advanced data science, including machine learning models, to find and mitigate attacks that slip past traditional email defenses.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Social Engineering
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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99% of User-Related Threats Are Email Impersonation Attempts

Thu, 06/22/2023
Threats in corporate inboxes hit new highs with a quarter of all reported emails classified as malicious or untrustworthy. 99% of these threats were email impersonation threats, such as BEC and credential theft lures, that lack attachments or URLs delivering malware payloads. Cybercriminals continue to bypass traditional email security tools and reach end users by impersonating individuals...
Cloud Email Security
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Gone Phishing: What’s the Best Way to Educate Staff on Security?

Fri, 02/03/2023
How do you work out the weakest link in your team? Who is that employee most likely to fall prey to the socially engineered scams that are making billions of pounds for cyber criminals on the black market? Pertinent questions in the aftermath of the recent Kaspersky Lab report that revealed more than 100 banks, financial institutions and e-payment systems in over 30 countries had been targeted by...
Cloud Email Security
Phishing
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Phishing with Invisible Ink

Fri, 02/03/2023
You might remember as a child, there was a revelation…invisible ink. Stepping forward to today, there is now a new type of phishing which uses invisible ink, or as it’s also called, ‘zero font’, as a means to beat the spam and phishing filters. Anti-spam / phishing filters work in several different ways; they look for specific words or phrases and there is then a statistical element. If there are...
Cloud Email Security
First Line of Defense
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How to Gain Stakeholder Support for Email Security Investment

Tue, 01/24/2023
Investing in email protection beyond basic anti-spam is vital to protecting an organization. Persuading leadership and stakeholders of this can be complicated. We take a look at ways to obtain comprehensive email security buy-in.
Cloud Email Security
World class email security experts
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What Is an Enterprise’s Secondary Line of Defense Against Phishing Emails?

Tue, 01/17/2023
Following a multi-layered approach to phishing defense is a good idea, but using what you have close to home is best when it comes to a sensible security posture. In practice, a robust security awareness training program is key to instruct employees on what to look for when trying to spot phishing emails that may have landed in their inboxes.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Advanced Threat Protection
Cloud Email Security
First Line of Defense
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What Is an Enterprise’s Primary Line of Defense Against Phishing Emails?

By Monica Delyani on Tue, 01/17/2023
Through a layered approach utilizing a comprehensive solution as the primary defense, Fortra fills major gaps in email platform security by protecting users from external threats and safeguarding your sensitive data from being leaked both inside and outside your organization.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Advanced Threat Protection
Cloud Email Security
Guide
Guide

A Window on Email Security

This white paper takes an expansive look at the hidden threats lurking around email inboxes, and how layered email security with a clear understanding of goals can keep your organization better protected.
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Emails Reported as Malicious Reach Four-Quarter High in Q3

Wed, 11/23/2022
The volume of malicious emails reported in corporate inboxes has reached a four-quarter high, according to the latest data from Fortra's PhishLabs.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Ransomware
Social Engineering
Cloud Email Security
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What Is Whaling Phishing & How Does It Work?

Mon, 10/03/2022
“Whaling” phishing fraud attacks target the C-suite of a company which creates high risk of extremely sensitive, mission-critical data being stolen and exposed. Fortunately, protecting the organization from these attacks is possible. Whaling phishing is a type of phishing attack targeting larger, high-value targets, which is why it's called "Whaling." Attackers themselves often pretend to be C...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Office 365 + DMARC: Best Practices for Protecting Your Company & Customers From Phishing Attacks

By John Wilson on Mon, 08/15/2022
In 2021, Gartner includes DMARC, or known by its full name as Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, in its list of top 10 security projects . With very few exceptions, the best way for organizations to prevent getting impersonated in email attacks is to integrate DMARC into their Office 365-based email ecosystems. To understand why, let’s consider the benefits of deploying...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Security for Office 365
Guide
Guide

Frost Radar: Email Security Report

Frost & Sullivan has released the Frost Radar: Email Security, providing a benchmarking system to help you protect your email from cyber attacks. Download the report for more information about: Why email is a top threat vector for cyber attacks, and how working from home has increased the risk How the email security market will continue to grow as more organizations transition to the cloud, and...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Guide
Guide

Cosmic Lynx Threat Dossier: The Rise of Russian BEC

Cosmic Lynx is a Russia-based BEC cybercriminal organization that has significantly impacted the email threat landscape with sophisticated, high-dollar phishing attacks. In this threat dossier, you’ll discover key details about Cosmic Lynx, including: How Cosmic targets global corporations with incredibly sophisticated BEC attacks How Cosmic Lynx exploits DMARC controls to impersonate corporate...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Guide
Guide

Download the Latest Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends Report

In 2021 alone, the FBI's IC3 report published that over $44 million in losses were a direct result of effective phishing and advanced email scams. The Agari Cyber Intelligence Division analyzed trillions of emails and nearly 500 million Internet domains to uncover the scope and impact of this email fraud… and the trends that benchmark enterprise security teams’ ability to respond to email threats...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication