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Agari Outperforms Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Expectations; Uncovers Cybercriminals Behind COVID-19 Unemployment Fraud; Earns Industry Recognitions for Innovation

FOSTER CITY, CA and LONDON (Jan. 6, 2021) -- Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, today announced performance results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020. Highlights include: 33% global customer growth First to identify one of the cybercriminal rings behind U.S. CARES Act Fraud First to uncover Russian “BEC” cybercriminal...
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How to Make Oauth2 Play Nice with EKS Ingress

Over the course of my technical career, I’ve always thought of Oauth2 to, frankly, be a bit of a pain. Oauth2 offers a mind boggling amount of possibilities and is the basis of many authorization workflows. However, I have found the documentation and supporting examples of how to integrate Oauth2 somewhat lacking. I hope that someone out in the ether will find this blog post and save a few days of...
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DMARC: 3 Best Practices for Capturing Next-Level Business Value

Implementing DMARC at its highest enforcement level is critically important to security and messaging operations. But it's also just the first step to realizing the full value of your DMARC program. To understand why, let's start with the basics. DMARC , which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, can stop fraudsters from spoofing your domain and impersonating...
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What is Email Spoofing & How to Stop Attackers from Spoofing Your Email Address

What is email spoofing, how does it work, and why is it so dangerous to your company? We’ll explain everything you need to proactively stop attackers from spoofing your email address. Email Spoofing: What Is It? Email spoofing is when a fraudster forges an email header’s ‘From’ address to make it appear as if it was sent by someone else, usually a known contact like a high-level executive or...
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BEC Response Guide— Tips for Responding to Business Email Compromise Incidents

This post originally appeared on Medium and is published here courtesy of Ronnie Tokazowski. For more by Ronnie, follow him on Twitter @iHeartMalware . If you’re reading this and are in the middle of an incident, go to the first bullet now . The rest can wait. Malware incidents suck, but if you want to know what it’s like responding to a BEC incident, triple the carnage, shake the snow globe, set...
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BEC Cash-out Methods: Email Fraudsters Experimenting With Alternative Approaches

Business email compromise ( BEC ) actors are exploring alternative cash-out methods for spiriting away the profits from their crimes. Traditional bank accounts have long been the go-to choice for email scammers seeking to cash out the funds they've pilfered from organizations they victimize. Just since 2016, BEC groups have defrauded businesses out of more than $26 billion worldwide. But over the...
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Office 365 Phishing Emails: Prevention, Detection, Response

Office 365 phishing emails come in common patterns. I'll list them here and also cover Office 365 anti-phishing features for prevention, detection, and response. Today, the typical Office 365 phishing emails direct users to fake Office 365 Sign-in pages. The victim submits their credentials, effectively handing over their password. Fraudsters use that login to access the victim’s address book...
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Agari honored with Best Overall Enterprise Email Security Solution of the Year Award

FOSTER CITY, CA (Nov. 18, 2020) -- Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, announced today that its email authentication product, Agari Brand Protection™, won Overall Enterprise Email Security Solution of the Year at the 2020 Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards . Now in its fourth year the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards are considered one of industry’s...
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DKIM for Email: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Add It

We'll cover what DKIM for email is, why your company needs it, how it works, how to set DKIM up, and additional ways to prevent email spoofing attacks. What is DKIM? First, let’s clarify what DKIM is in email. DomainKeys Identified Mail is a technique that uses your domain name to sign your emails with a digital “signature” so your customers know it’s really you sending those emails and that they...
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DMARC: 5 Keys to Success

In this post, we will look at 5 keys to DMARC success both organizationally and in enterprise-wide implementation. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) is a standard email authentication protocol that plays an essential role in any organization’s cyber security arsenal. That’s because DMARC is key to protecting your business, customers, and partners from email...
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5 Keys to DMARC Success

DMARC email authentication is essential to protecting your business, customers, and partners from email attacks that spoof your domain and hijack your brand. But for large enterprises, effective DMARC deployment is a complex, high-stakes effort. Let Agari show you the way to full DMARC protection quickly and safely. In this webinar, you’ll discover 5 best practices from the pros: Key program...
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BEC Attacks: What They Are, How to Spot Them, and What to Do

Here we’ll cover what BEC attacks are, how they work, what they usually look like, and how to handle them. What is a BEC Attack? 7 Common BEC Attack Patterns Top Identity Deception Techniques How Can BEC Attacks be Stopped? What's the Best Way to Recover From a BEC Attack? What is a BEC Attack? First, let me explain what a BEC attack is. In short, Business Email Compromise phishing occurs when...
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BEC Scams: What to Look For, What to Do

We'll cover what BEC scams (Business Email Compromise scams) are, how they work, what you should look for, and what to do about them, including: What the Heck is BEC? 3 Reasons BEC Attacks Are Getting Worse What Are The Top BEC Scams to Look Out For? Key Identity Deception Tactics You Need to Know How Can BEC Scams Be Blocked? What the Heck is BEC? Here’s how BEC scams work: Business Email...
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Agari Dispels Myth of Where Phishing Criminals are Located

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON (Oct. 13, 2020) -- Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense for the enterprise, unveiled today the results of a year-long investigation into geographic locations of business email compromise (BEC) cybercriminals. Today’s announcement pinpoints for the first time where email scammers are located globally and maps their tangled web of money mules. Agari Cyber...
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The Global Reach of Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Over the last five years, Business Email Compromise (BEC) has evolved into the predominant cyber threat businesses face today. Since 2016, businesses have lost at least $26 billion as a result of BEC scams and, based on the most recent FBI IC3 report , losses from BEC attacks grew another 37 percent in 2019—accounting for 40 percent of all cybercrime losses over the course of the year. The...
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DMARC Setup Guide: How to Add DMARC Step by Step

We'll explain how to configure DMARC for your company's email, including what you'll need and how to add DMARC to your DNS. Just follow these DMARC setup steps! Before we begin, here’s a high-level overview of how to add DMARC to your DNS. Add your DMARC record into your DNS Select the TXT record type Add the host value (see details below) Add the value information (see details below) Save the...
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Agari Fall ' 20 Release Boosts CISO Confidence in Enterprise DMARC Deployment

With cyber gangs leveraging business email compromise (BEC) attacks that actively exploit their targets' level of DMARC adoption, CISOs have been ratcheting up email security. Until now, the need to dial up defenses against imposters posing as senior executives in email attacks has been increasingly forcing legitimate business correspondence into quarantine. The chain reaction kneecaps commerce...
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Phishing: How to Protect Against Email Attacks Sent from Compromised SendGrid Accounts

Blocking SendGrid email traffic isn't a realistic option for most businesses hit by a barrage of phishing attacks emanating from compromised accounts at the Twilio-owned email service provider in recent months. Instead, Agari leverages a strategic data modeling approach to neutralize the threat while enabling legitimate SendGrid-distributed emails to safely reach employee inboxes. More on that in...
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Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) Adoption Soaring to New Heights

For a growing number of email marketers, it may be "BIMI or bust." As of June 30, nearly 5,300 companies have adopted Brand Indicators for Message Identification ( BIMI ), a new email standard for showcasing a brand's logo next to its email messages in recipient inboxes, with built-in protections against phishing-based brand spoofing. The tally reflects a 3.8X increase in the number of brands...