Category Archives: Email Security
Phishing scheme shows CEOs may be ‘most valuable asset,’ and ‘greatest vulnerability’
Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders – often companies’ biggest security liabilities.
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BEC attack techniques exploit Microsoft 365 messages
Attackers exploit Microsoft 365 “read receipt” and “out of office” message loopholes to evade auto-remediation of a malicious email.
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Thousands of BEC lures use Google Forms in recon campaign
Researchers say they have observed thousands of messages using Google Forms to target retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and manufacturing companies in an apparent reconnaissance campaign to launch future business email compromises (BECs). The attackers used Google Forms to bypass email security content filters based on keywords, according to a blog released Wednesday by Proofpoint Threat…
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Surge in remotely hosted phish images? Some say it’s business as usual
In Nov. 2020 alone, company blocked 262 million emails containing malicious, remotely hosted images.
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SolarWinds attackers suspected in Microsoft authentication compromise
Mimecast issued a new certificate and is urging affected customers to delete the old one after Microsoft warned of a compromise.
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Malspam campaign spoofs email chains to install IcedID info-stealer
A phishing campaign has been disguising its spam as an email chain, using messages taken from email clients on previously compromised hosts.
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SC Labs product reviews: Email security
Editor’s Note: This set of reviews originally appeared in February 2020. To find out more about SC Labs, contact Adrian Sanabria at [email protected]. The use of collaborative tools and technologies is on the rise with email topping the list. That explains why it faces such relentless attacks. Email communications are leveraged to keep businesses running…
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2021 strategy predictions: Shifts in business models, shifts in security priorities
Enhanced email security? Growth of digital identities? Vulnerability management born from mergers and acquisitions? Here, cybersecurity experts offer their take on what strategic shifts we should expect within the enterprise.
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