Fraud leaders are under pressure to prevent fraud while also providing a frictionless customer experience. Email addresses are the logical front-end fraud prevention layer because they leave a trace of every online interaction. This trace can be used to assess the risk of every transaction, and it offers less friction...
Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United States and Western Europe.
Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K. government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. In an open letter, they said the bill is "doomed to fail."
Cloudflare and Check Point joined Proofpoint and Microsoft atop Forrester's email security rankings, while Trend Micro, Barracuda Networks and Mimecast tumbled from the leaders category. A number of security vendors have gotten into email protection in recent years by acquiring CAPES startups.
Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Now they’re more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more.
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Understanding and Defending Against AI-Generated Email Attacks
ChatGPT. Google Bard. DeepFaceLab.
Generative AI is all the rage, and for good reason. What used to take hours can now be done in minutes, and what used to take minutes can be done in seconds. Which is great for productivity in the right hands.
But...
Cisco plans to make its third tuck-in cybersecurity acquisition of 2023 to protect email, cloud office applications and enterprise communications through natural language understanding. Cisco will take advantage of Armorblox's predictive and generative AI to help customers bolster their security.
Cisco Security Executive Vice President and General Manager Jeetu Patel said the industry struggles to address multifaceted attacks that originate in email and include bad links, malware downloads to a device and more. Cyber defenders need correlated data from multiple sources of telemetry, he said.
Banks are facing unprecedented challenges in securing their digital ecosystems while maintaining cost efficiency. With cybercriminals increasingly targeting the financial industry, banks face risks to their reputation as trustworthy partners. With data breach costs averaging nearly $6 million per incident, banks...
Expel, CrowdStrike and Red Canary held steady atop Forrester's MDR rankings, while Secureworks and Binary Defense tumbled from the leaders category. Providers have turned their attention from maximizing their efficacy at detecting ransomware to finding faster and better ways to respond to attacks.
While security tools have become more adept at detecting payloads in emails, attacks that lack known indicators and rely instead on impersonation/social engineering tactics are successfully bypassing these traditional controls and reaching inboxes. If an organization’s email security controls are not effective...
Data443 has bought Cyren's threat intelligence, URL categorization and email security technology out of bankruptcy for up to $3.5 million. Buying Cyren's anti-spam, virus outbreak detection, IP reputation, URL filtering and Threat InDepth data feeds will boost Data443's existing product portfolio.
While historically the origin of most business email compromise (BEC) attacks has been West Africa, residing in Nigeria certainly isn’t a requirement for BEC attackers. Indeed, the subject of this report is a sophisticated threat group based in Israel.
The group is unique in that they impersonate executives and...
Email is your most essential business tool—and today’s top malware delivery vector. This vital communications channel has become fertile ground for today's most damaging cyber threats and all kinds of fraud. Because email threats inherently target people, an effective cybersecurity program focuses on people first....
Every year, threat actors look for new tactics to outwit victims and bypass defenses. And 2022 was no different. As businesses rolled out new security controls, cyber criminals found new, sophisticated ways to attack people.
In our ninth annual State of the Phish report, we dive deep into complex new techniques...
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