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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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Spoofing,
DMARC,
SPF,
2020

Understanding DMARC Part 2: How the Protocol’s Limitations Maintain Elevated Risk

By Brendon Roddas
on December 29, 2020
In our last blog post we discussed the hype around Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), the upcoming deadline for compliance to DHS’ Binding Operational Directive ...
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Spoofing,
2020

Microsoft O365 Fails to Block Spoofed Emails Sent from Microsoft.com

By Lomy Ovadia
on December 07, 2020
The 200 million Microsoft Office 365 (O365) users worldwide are now being targeted by a new global spear-phishing attack spoofing Microsoft.com. Two weeks ago, IRONSCALES researchers first identified ...
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Phishing,
Spoofing,
2020

Phishing Attacks Spoofing PBX Integrations

By Ian Baxter
on June 04, 2020
With workforces largely remaining partially or fully remote, employees continue to rely on tools for greater efficiency and productivity. While we all know that software like Slack and Zoom have ...
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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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Spoofing,
Whaling,
CEO fraud,
2018

Why Email Security Must Move from the Gateway to the Mailbox

By Eyal Benishti
on March 12, 2018
The Rise of Business Email Compromise (BEC): Did you know that, according to Aberdeen, within 80 seconds of a phishing message arriving in an organization, someone has interacted with the message, ...
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Phishing,
Spoofing,
2018

Are Netflix Scams a Threat to the Enterprise?

By Eyal Benishti
on January 30, 2018
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, ...
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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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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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