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2022

5 Email Security and Phishing Predictions for 2022 (Part 1)

By Themis
on February 16, 2022

In the dynamic world of cybersecurity, things change quickly and often—email security and phishing are no exceptions. Each 12-month period sees a range of new tactics, tools, and methods employed by ...

Spoofing,

Impersonation,

Email Security,

Anti Phishing,

CEO fraud,

2021

Google’s Gmail for Business Offers High False Positives as Standard

By Eyal Benishti
on October 13, 2021

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 ...

Impersonation,

CEO fraud,

DMARC,

2019

What One Black Hat 2019 Session Got Entirely Wrong About Email Security

By Eyal Benishti
on August 16, 2019

Our friend and veteran cybersecurity journalist Sean Michael Kerner recently authored an article for Infosecurity Magazine recapping a Black Hat USA session on email security. The session, “How to ...

Impersonation,

Anti Phishing,

BEC,

DMARC,

SPF,

2019

Secure Email Gateways Miss 99 Percent of Email Spoofing Attacks

By IRONSCALES
on April 02, 2019

April 2, 2019– Atlanta & Tel Aviv - IRONSCALES, the world’s first automated phishing prevention, detection and response platform, today announced the results of new research proving that secure ...

Spoofing,

Impersonation,

Anti Phishing,

Incident Response,

CEO fraud,

2018

DMARC Hasn't Stopped HMRC Being Spoofed

By Eyal Benishti
on April 26, 2018

In April [2018], the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its Active Cyber Defence (ACD) Programme which urged companies to employ the Domain-based message authentication, reporting ...

Phishing,

Spoofing,

Impersonation,

Anti Phishing,

2018

BEC Attack Bypassed Gmail’s Anti-Phishing SPF Security - Again

By Eyal Benishti
on April 12, 2018

Business Email Compromise attacks (BECs) have been causing organizations problems for years, with the problem getting worse. The reason they’re so difficult to deflect is that, unlike typical email ...

Ransomware,

Phishing,

Impersonation,

Incident Response,

Phishing Threat Hunting,

Smishing,

2017

Devastating Phishing Attacks Dominate First Half of 2017

By Eyal Benishti
on July 11, 2017

Last December, we proclaimed 2016 to be the year in which phishing went mainstream. Fast-forward just six months into 2017, and it already appears that phishing will have an even greater impact on ...

Spoofing,

Impersonation,

Machine Learning,

CEO fraud,

2017

Humans + Machines: The Best Defense Against Email Phishing Attacks

By Eyal Benishti
on June 20, 2017

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global cybersecurity spending will exceed $1 trillion cumulatively over the next five years. With the massive number of cyber defenses, strategies and services ...

Phishing,

Spoofing,

Impersonation,

2017

The $100M Email Spoofing Attack on Multinational Internet Companies Should Accelerate Adoption of Machine Learning Security

By Ian Thomas
on May 09, 2017

Your blog post Last month, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Lithuanian man for allegedly stealing $100 million from two U.S.-based tech companies. While the ...

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