You’ve seen headlines like " Facebook and Google were Scammed Out of $100 Million " and " Equifax's Massive Data Breach Has Cost the Company $4 Billion So Far ." Despite significant investments in email security solutions, the threat from an endless barrage of spear-phishing attacks, business email compromise (BEC) schemes, account takeover-based attacks (ATOs) and other advanced email threats...

Losses from business email compromise (BEC) attacks targeting title companies, real estate firms and others are up 136% in just 18 months. Here's what you need to know to avoid becoming the next victim Real estate industry marketers seeking to grow revenues and boost market share are increasingly facing a threat that can decimate their competitive position: Business Email Compromise (BEC) . That's...

Recent Dark Web activity points to a boom in assaults against financial services organizations and their customers—and why advanced email attacks via business email compromise remain cybercriminals’ preferred point of entry A 150% increase in cyberattacks in recent months may have financial services organizations focusing on protecting corporate systems while ignoring their Achilles heel—advanced...

After the typical malicious email attack is launched, its first victim will be compromised in under 4 minutes. Now, emerging, predictive models may point to new ways to neutralize that threat. Data science may soon be able to predict when the next email fraud attack will hit your company's inboxes. But why should we care? After all, what's the value of being able to predict these assaults? Is an...

Executive branch DMARC adoption hits 81%—but with roughly 90 days to go, most have yet to implement required enforcement policy levels across all .gov domains With less than three months left to comply with the Department of Homeland Security's Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 18-01 deadline, adoption of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Compliance (DMARC) protocols for email...

As the number of highly-targeted, fraud-based email attacks on employees continues to rise, what if there was a way to forecast when the next one will hit their inboxes? As it turns out, there very well may be. In case there was any remaining doubt that data science is cool, recent analysis from Agari researchers studying emerging patterns in email fraud may forever put that doubt to rest. In fact...

Don't look now, but a growing number of phishing attacks are luring in your customers—by impersonating your brand. As if all the spear-phishing attacks against your company weren't bad enough, just wait until you see the scams targeting your customers with email messages appearing to come from your brand. With impersonation attacks surging in recent months, some are wondering: Is DMARC email...

Part 3 of a 4-part series View Next in Series | View Previous in Series 'Operation WireWire' disrupted $14 million in scams—but as business email compromise spikes, innovative approaches to cybersecurity gain new urgency By all accounts, "Operation WireWire" was a massively successful crackdown against business email compromise (BEC) rackets around the globe. But did it really just raise more...

As more business communication and commerce becomes digital, it becomes increasingly important to have trusted and secure email communication. Hackers have recognized that email, which is the cornerstone of digital identity, can be exploited in increasingly sophisticated impersonation and phishing attacks to cause billions of dollars of harm and moreover, damage the trust and reputation that...

From 'Search & Destroy' to Granular Analysis and Beyond: New Machine Learning Tools Enhance Detection, Visualization & Remediation Against a Growing Threat With advanced identity deception-based email attacks expected to contribute to worldwide losses of more than $600 billion this year, businesses can't afford to let down their guard against the threats hitting their inboxes. Fact #1: 95%of all...

Today, Agari has published “ Behind the ‘From’ Lines: Email Fraud on a Global Scale ,” a historic report that I believe is the first of its kind (but definitely not the last!). During the past 10 months, Agari has captured criminal email accounts using responsible active defense techniques, granting us unparalleled access and insight into the operation of these organized crime groups. By...

The European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), comes into effect on May 25, 2018 and has many ramifications for any organization doing business in the EU. Essentially, the regulation defines how businesses collect and store information on their customers and other private citizens. GDPR goes beyond the current standard of the EU Privacy Directive with...

DMARC builds on two earlier email authentication standards: SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) . DMARC was a critical development because both of these earlier standards, while effective, contain important gaps. Why is DMARC Important? Unless you’re one of the rare people on the planet that doesn’t use email for business and personal communications, you know that...