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Leveraging AI to Combat Email Attacks

By Ravisha Chugh
In today's digital landscape, email remains a cornerstone of business communication, yet its ubiquity makes it a prime target for sophisticated attacks like BEC and brand impersonation. These attacks have a significant impact on financial organizations as they can lead to direct financial and reputational loss. While traditional email security measures help, many fall short. To combat this,...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Account Takeover
Business Email Compromise
Domain Impersonation
Email Spoofing
Social Engineering
Spear Phishing
Vendor Email Compromise
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Data Loss Prevention
Phishing Simulation & Training
Triage and Response
Email Security
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Top Threats to Cloud Email Security and How to Mitigate Them

By Ravisha Chugh on Wed, 10/30/2024
A summary of common threats faced by cloud email systems beyond malware and data breaches, this blog provides actionable tips and best practices for businesses to protect their email systems.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Account Takeover
Business Email Compromise
Email Spoofing
Social Engineering
Spear Phishing
Vendor Email Compromise
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Email Security
Microsoft Office 365
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Email Protection Strategies for Modern Enterprises

By Monica Delyani on Wed, 10/30/2024
Modern enterprises need to be able to identify the tactics being used by cybercriminals in email attacks, especially those leveraging advanced technologies like AI. Find out what's at stake and how today's email security solutions can help mitigate these evolving attacks.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Account Takeover
Business Email Compromise
Email Spoofing
Social Engineering
Spear Phishing
Vendor Email Compromise
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Email Security
Microsoft Office 365
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Harrowing Tales of Social Engineering Attacks from the Trenches

By Monica Delyani on Wed, 10/23/2024
The social engineering attacks that businesses are seeing today – from hiding payloads in files to commit fraud, to quishing and smishing – and what can be done about them.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Social Engineering
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Email Security
Data Security
On-Demand Webinar

How to Mitigate Three Prevalent Advanced Email Threats Webinar

Watch Fortra experts, Cary Hudgins and Mike Jones, as well as Forrester Principal Analyst, Jess Burn, navigate the sophisticated email attacks that continue to prey on enterprise users. Advanced human-targeted attacks that trick unsuspecting recipients into interacting with or responding are becoming more pervasive, like quishing (aka QR code phishing), social engineering and O365 lures, and so...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
On-Demand Webinar

QR Codes That Aren't Cool Webinar

Threat adversaries have pivoted their credential phishing and BEC tactics in order to bypass security stacks. In this video, Fortra’s Advanced Email Security expert, Dr. Steve Jeffery, discusses how the QR code has become the carrier of choice for delivering payloads via email and what your organization needs to put in place to stop them. You’ll learn: How human and machine mitigations help...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
On-Demand Webinar

DMARC Revisited: Email Authentication in 2024

Implementing DMARC is one of the simplest ways to prevent email spoofing and ensure consistent email deliverability. Agari DMARC Protection will lead you through a safe and efficient DMARC implementation with features that allow you to: Catalogue and authenticate all legitimate senders–both 3rd-party and internal Navigate past common authentication pitfalls Comply with today’s major email...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
On-Demand Webinar

Is Microsoft Email Security Enough in 2024?

As Microsoft’s security capabilities continue to evolve, many organizations are questioning how much they should rely on Microsoft for their email security needs. Watch this webinar to hear Fortra experts discuss enterprise email security requirements and how Microsoft fits into the equation and where it falls short, along with: How to evaluate Microsoft’s role in your email security stack ...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Blog

What Is Whaling Phishing & How Does It Work?

Mon, 10/03/2022
“Whaling” phishing fraud attacks target the C-suite of a company which creates high risk of extremely sensitive, mission-critical data being stolen and exposed. Fortunately, protecting the organization from these attacks is possible.Whaling phishing is a type of phishing attack targeting larger, high-value targets, which is why it's called "Whaling." Attackers themselves often pretend to be C...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
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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...
ACID Research
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Email Spoofing
Spear Phishing
Video

What is Account Takeover?

Tue, 07/26/2022
TranscriptAccount takeover is a type of attack technique where a cybercriminal will initially compromise an email account, and then use that legitimate email account to launch subsequent attacks such as business email compromise, and spear phishing.Agari stops email account takeover by scrutinizing the sender of the email sent to the recipient. They'll leverage...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Video

What is Spear Phishing?

Tue, 07/26/2022
VP Channel Marketing, Mandeep Khera, discusses why traditional security controls cannot stop modern spear phishing attacks.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Spear Phishing
Guide

Anatomy of a Compromised Account

Credential phishing leads to compromised accounts, and compromised accounts lead to more credential phishing. In order to uncover the mechanics, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division seeded more than 8,000 phishing sites with fake credentials and then monitored what happened next. In this report, you’ll discover more about how cybercriminals access and use compromised accounts, including How...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Vendor Email Compromise
Guide

Cosmic Lynx Threat Dossier: The Rise of Russian BEC

Cosmic Lynx is a Russia-based BEC cybercriminal organization that has significantly impacted the email threat landscape with sophisticated, high-dollar phishing attacks. In this threat dossier, you’ll discover key details about Cosmic Lynx, including: How Cosmic targets global corporations with incredibly sophisticated BEC attacks How Cosmic Lynx exploits DMARC controls to impersonate...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Guide

The Total Economic Impact™ of Agari Phishing Defense

Agari commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Agari Phishing Defense. Quantified benefits expressed in risk-adjusted present value generated return on investment of 97% over three years, including: $270k value from improved IT security and reduced level of effort...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Scattered Canary Guide
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Scattered Canary Threat Dossier

Business email compromise (BEC) has continued to grow into a billion-dollar industry as cybercriminals turn to it as their preferred scam. But with the West African gang we’ve named Scattered Canary, we have deeper insight into how BEC is connected to the rest of cybercrime, and why it has grown in recent years.Download the threat dossier to learn:How Scattered Canary grew from a one-man startup...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Spear Phishing
Blog

What Is Email Phishing? Protect Your Enterprise

Wed, 12/08/2021
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult. What Is Email Phishing? Phishing is when an attacker mimics a trusted person or brand in an attempt to steal sensitive information, or gain a foothold inside a company network. While phishing emails are by far the most popular, these...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Spear Phishing
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What is Email Spoofing & How to Stop Attackers from Spoofing Your Email Address

Tue, 12/15/2020
What is email spoofing, how does it work, and why is it so dangerous to your company? We’ll explain everything you need to proactively stop attackers from spoofing your email address.Email Spoofing: What Is It?Email spoofing is when a fraudster forges an email header’s ‘From’ address to make it appear as if it was sent by someone else, usually a known contact like a high-level executive or trusted...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Email Spoofing
Spear Phishing
Anti-Phishing Offerings
Anti-Phishing
Blog

Preventing Phishing Attacks:  The Dangers of Two-Factor Authentication

Mon, 06/08/2020
Are you protecting your remote workers against an endless barrage of COVID-19 related phishing attacks by requiring 2-factor authentication (2FA) to log into employee email accounts? Smart move—just don't let it give you a false sense of security.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Account Takeover
Email Spoofing
Spear Phishing