Blog Archive - 2018

January
Eyal Benishti 2018 Jan 30 Are Netflix Scams a Threat to the Enterprise? Netflix is quickly becoming a popular brand for fraudsters to spoof in phishing campaigns. Neflix has been impersonated by criminals in the last 12 months in various, increasingly sophisticated, scams in an attempt to lull potential victims into a false sense of security, and consequently get their hands on individuals financial information READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Jan 22 Complimenting DMARC with IronSights to Overcome Email Spoofing & Business Email Compromise From small businesses to federal agencies and Fortune 500s, no one is immune from the risk of a cyberattack. And as we’ve written about extensively before, phishing remains the primary enabler of most attacks, and sophisticated hackers can now generate fraudulent messages that are almost impossible to identify. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Jan 9 The Phishing Lures of 2017 Phishing is something that just doesn’t seem to want to go away. With the first phishing email believed to have been sent in the mid 1990’s, most people did not realise the existence of phishing until the ‘Love Bug’ scam struck in 2000, when a simple email attachment infected approximately 45 million computers worldwide. READ MORE
February
Eyal Benishti 2018 Feb 21 With Consolidation Inevitable, What Does the Future Hold for Phishing Awareness Training Providers? Phishing awareness training alone will never be a sufficient solution to email security and phishing mitigation, and solutions providers know it. So are organizations that use it for more than 3 years now. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Feb 8 Phishing Awareness Training Companies Consolidate as Organizations Demand Comprehensive Email Security Protections Phishing Awareness Training focused solutions are not aligned with today’s advanced persistent threats, business email compromise and ransomware attacks that require a more holistic and integrated approach to phishing mitigation. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Feb 6 Ransomware Dominated 2017 As ransomware ran amock last year we take a retrospective look at what actually transpired READ MORE
March
Eyal Benishti 2018 Mar 28 Google’s Gmail for Business Offers High False Positives as Standard Google’s Gmail for Business has had an overhaul and now claims to offer AI-powered security features. According to its marketing materials, it will now offer advanced protection against phishing and malware attempts. Fantastic? READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Mar 21 Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing Phishing – and It’s Not All Good Scammers could use the power of Artificial Intelligence to create devious phishing messages that humans can’t possibly detect READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Mar 12 Why Email Security Must Move from the Gateway to the Mailbox Phishing emails now bypass gateway-based filters, so organizations must adopt new mailbox-level email security for phishing prevention. READ MORE
April
Eyal Benishti 2018 Apr 26 DMARC Hasn't Stopped HMRC Being Spoofed HMRC implements DMARC to block spoofed emails but criminals still able to mimic brand to send phishing messages and trick victims READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Apr 12 BEC Attack Bypassed Gmail’s Anti-Phishing SPF Security - Again Major vulnerability allows spear-phishing emails to bypass Gmail’s anti-phishing SPF security in business email compromise (BEC) attack READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Apr 4 The Five Ways Email Phishing Attacks Have Evolved Phishing emails have evolved into complex threats due to business email compromise, polymorphic attacks and fileless messages that gateways cannot protect. READ MORE
May
Eyal Benishti 2018 May 31 Five Ways the IRONSCALES Advanced Phishing Threat Prevention Platform Saves SOC Teams Valuable Time The five ways in which the IRONSCALES platform helps save SOC teams time includes orchestration, intelligence sharing, incident response, mailbox scanning and two-click deployment. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 May 9 MS Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Vulnerabilities As email phishing grows more sophisticated and remains a primary attack vector for data breaches, many security providers are attempting to step up their solutions to better mitigate risk. Microsoft is no exception, as the tech giant continues to invest in its Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, which it proclaims to provide protection, detection and response to “unknown and sophisticated attacks.” READ MORE
June
Eyal Benishti 2018 Jun 19 All in the Family Part II. The Ransomware that’s Terrorizing the World in 2018 Ransomware strains continue to terrorize businesses across the world, and IRONSCALES phishing threat prevention platform can help mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks. READ MORE
July
Brendon Roddas 2018 Jul 31 SOC Teams Struggling to Detect Malicious Emails Fifty five percent of respondents told us that the time to detect phishing messages is the greatest challenge facing the SOC/Security team in relation to addressing emerging email threats. Performing email forensics on messages received also ranked high with 24% identifying this as the greatest threat they faced while 18% felt it was removing malicious messages from mailboxes where the danger lay. READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Jul 16 The Evolution of Email Security from Spam Filters to Business Email Compromise Protection Email security has evolved from rules-based spam filters into advanced anti phishing threat protection platforms that combine human intelligence with machine learning. READ MORE Brendon Roddas 2018 Jul 3 Organizations at Infosecurity Europe Continue to be Plagued by Phishing Emails We were exhibiting this year at Infosecurity Europe and, over the three days, we polled visitors to get a sense of how they were handling email security READ MORE
August
Adam Hofeler 2018 Aug 15 A CRN Emerging Vendor for the Continuation of Phishing Threats In case you missed it, we were recently named to the “Emerging Vendor 2018: Cybersecurity Companies You Should Know” list by CRN READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Aug 7 Just What is AI? Artificial intelligence is something we continue to see discussed- Elon Musk believes it will be the downfall of humanity, many are concerned its implementation could leave thousands out of jobs, and some even see it as something straight out of a sci-fi movie. READ MORE
September
Brendon Roddas 2018 Sep 18 Understanding DMARC Part 1: What’s Driving All the Hype? We’ve previously written a lot about DMARC, and despite the protocol having been in existence since 2011, it really did not enter into the spotlight as a mainstream email security solution until DHS jumped on the bandwagon late last year. READ MORE Adam Hofeler 2018 Sep 3 Four Benefits of Automated Advanced Phishing Threat Protection to the Channel Fostering channel partnerships with reputable value-added resellers (VARs) has become an important component of most cybersecurity companies go-to-market strategies. READ MORE
October
Brendon Roddas 2018 Oct 16 DMARC Part 3: Sender Fingerprinting Thrives Where DMARC Falls In part three of this blog series, we’ll introduce an anti-spoofing solution that provides all of the benefits of DMARC with none of the limitations. READ MORE Brendon Roddas 2018 Oct 3 Understanding DMARC Part 2: How the Protocol’s Limitations Maintain Elevated Risk In part two of this blog series, we’ll look at the interdependencies of SPF, DKIM and DMARC, explore the limitations and vulnerabilities of each, and identify the unintended consequences of DMARC adoption. READ MORE
November
Lomy Ovadia 2018 Nov 30 IRONSCALES & SNDBOX IDENTIFY A NEW MALWARE VARIANT New threat uses a malicious #RTF file to infect machines with maldoc file currently going fully undetected READ MORE Eyal Benishti 2018 Nov 19 To Prevent Email Phishing Risks, It’s a Race Against the Clock When it comes to preventing email phishing attacks, it’s a race against time. Using our data, Aberdeen published a new report on simulated phishing attacks. READ MORE Adam Hofeler 2018 Nov 5 Partner Spotlight: Champion Solutions Group | Blog | IRONSCALES We spoke with Chris Pyle, Champion Solutions Group President & CEO, about how his customers benefit from our advanced phishing threat protection platform. READ MORE
December
Eyal Benishti 2018 Dec 17 Automation, AI & Email Flooding: Email Security in 2019 From automation, to AI, to email flooding, email security is going to have a big and busy year in 2019. READ MORE