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Zero-Day Threats: How Cloud Email Security Can Mitigate Risks

By Ravisha Chugh on Mon, 11/25/2024
By Q3 2024, organizations encountered credential theft in nearly 50% of all email security threats they handled, while malware grew by 4% which is the highest amount of volume since Q1. Learn how cloud-based solutions can help detect and prevent zero-day attacks like malware and more.
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
Ransomware
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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The Royal & BlackCat Ransomware: What you Need to Know

Thu, 07/06/2023
The US healthcare sector continues to be aggressively targeted by ransomware operators. Royal and BlackCat are two of the more recent – and highly sophisticated – ransomware threats. These two new flavors of ransomware pose serious potential impacts on the healthcare sector, but there are appropriate mitigation and defense strategies that organizations can take to protect against them. What is...
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What is the Relationship Between Ransomware and Phishing?

Thu, 03/30/2023
Ransomware and phishing are usually put in two separate categories when cyberattack methodologies are discussed. However, ransomware operators are increasingly leveraging phishing tactics to deploy their malicious payloads, and the potential for compromise is exponentiating as a result. Ransomware and Phishing - a match made in heaven Phishing is the number one delivery vehicle for ransomware...
Advanced Email Threats
Ransomware
Social Engineering
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Emails Reported as Malicious Reach Four-Quarter High in Q3

Wed, 11/23/2022
The volume of malicious emails reported in corporate inboxes has reached a four-quarter high, according to the latest data from Fortra's PhishLabs.
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Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Ransomware
Social Engineering
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The “i'’s” Have It: How BEC Scammers Validate New Targets with Blank Emails

Fri, 07/29/2022
Have you ever received a blank email from someone you don’t know? If you have, it may have been from a cybercriminal making sure your email account is legitimate prior to a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. Agari and PhishLabs define BEC as any response-based spear phishing attack involving the impersonation of a trusted party to trick victims into making an unauthorized financial...
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Email Spoofing
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Inside a Compromised Account: How Cybercriminals Use Credential Phishing to Further BEC Scams

Mon, 06/07/2021
Why would a cybercriminal spend time developing malware when he can simply trick unsuspecting users into handing over their passwords? Why would a threat actor spend her money and resources on ransomware, when she can get that same information through a compromised account? It’s a good question, and exactly what the Fortra Cyber Intelligence Team, Fortra's group of threat hunters, wanted to...
ACID Research
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
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Cyber Threat Intelligence: How to Stay Ahead of Threats

Tue, 05/18/2021
Generally defined, cyber threat intelligence is information used to better understand possible digital threats that might target your organization. This data will help identify threats in order to prevent security breaches in the future.Why Cyber Threat Intelligence is ImportantHaving a system in place that can produce threat intelligence is critical to staying ahead of digital threats, as well as...
ACID Research
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The Global Reach of Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Mon, 10/12/2020
Over the last five years, Business Email Compromise (BEC) has evolved into the predominant cyber threat businesses face today. Since 2016, businesses have lost at least $26 billion as a result of BEC scams and, based on the most recent FBI IC3 report, losses from BEC attacks grew another 37 percent in 2019—accounting for 40 percent of all cybercrime losses over the course of the year. The...
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Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
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Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) Adoption Soaring to New Heights

Wed, 09/23/2020
For a growing number of email marketers, it may be "BIMI or bust." As of June 30, nearly 5,300 companies have adopted Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), a new email standard for showcasing a brand's logo next to its email messages in recipient inboxes, with built-in protections against phishing-based brand spoofing.The tally reflects a 3.8X increase in the number of brands...
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Why Full DMARC Protection is a Pressing Business Imperative in 2020 and Beyond

Tue, 09/15/2020
If you haven't deployed Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) to protect your brand from being impersonated in phishing scams, there are pressing reasons to jump on it now. Without a doubt, these are extraordinary times for individuals and organizations alike as we've been forced to change the way we work, shop, play, and live seemingly overnight, and for far...
ACID Research
Advanced Email Threats
Business Email Compromise
DMARC Email Authentication