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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eyal Benishti
2018 Feb 6
Ransomware Dominated 2017
As ransomware ran amock last year we take a retrospective look at what actually transpired
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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August
Tristan Bishop
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
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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.
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September
Tristan Bishop
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.
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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
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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.
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Tristan Bishop
2018 Nov 5
Partner Spotlight: Champion Solutions Group
We spoke with Chris Pyle, Champion Solutions Group President & CEO, about how his customers benefit from our advanced phishing threat protection platform.
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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.
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