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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 ...
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Impersonation,
CEO fraud,
DMARC,
2019

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

By Brendon Roddas
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Phishing,
Spoofing,
Impersonation,
CEO fraud,
2018

Complimenting DMARC with IronSights to Overcome Email Spoofing & Business Email Compromise

By Eyal Benishti
on January 22, 2018
Complimenting DMARC 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Spoofing,
Impersonation,
Machine Learning,
CEO fraud,
Malware,
2017

Machine Learning: The Best Defense Against Email Spoofing & CEO Fraud

By Eyal Benishti
on February 06, 2017
Hackers and cyber criminals have responded to the adoption of employee phishing awareness training, by improving the sophistication and deceptiveness of their attacks.
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