Email spoofing is one of the most common forms of cybercriminal activity, specifically a form of identity deception that's widely used in phishing and spam attacks. It underpins the mechanism required to conduct hacking activities, and it can take many forms.
What does a phishing email look like? We've compiled phishing email examples to help show what a spoofed email looks like to prevent against phishing attacks.
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult.
Email threats are ever evolving, and it’s important to stay up to date. Here are the current most common email threats and how to identify and mitigate them.
So, what are the most common types of email threats today?
We’ll explain these and more. Then, we’ll cover how to prevent, mitigate, and recover from most email threats.
Spear phishing is more focused than normal phishing. To protect against this type of phishing, your entire company will need to be educated and protected.
A typical spear phishing attempt is a fraudulent personalized email that is usually sent with an attachment or requests a response. The fraudster then tries to entice the recipient to open the infected attachment or respond with personal information.
How can you prevent business email attacks? Is training enough? We'll walk you through solutions and tips to protect your enterprise email from these attacks.
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are sophisticated scams that target specific individuals with believable emails asking for funds to be transferred. These attacks can cost a company thousands, if not millions, of dollars a year.
“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-suite executives in emails to colleagues asking for personal or company information.
If you want to know why business email compromise (BEC) and other advanced email attacks keep working so well, just ask Dilbert.
In one particularly biting installment of Scott Adams' popular workplace comic strip, our tech geek hero sits in his cubicle perusing an email that reads, "Enter your bank account number." Dilbert's thought bubble reads "Scam."
Only three months ago, the Agari team published our first in-depth analysis on how the top candidates for the US presidency compared when it comes to email security. The kinds of email attacks that helped derail Hillary Clinton’s candidacy in 2016 are only getting more sophisticated, and new data released today shows that campaigns are not taking the threat as seriously as they should.
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.