Successful BEC attacks become 56% more costly
The number of phishing attacks grew through 2020, fully doubling over the course of the year. Attacks peaked in October 2020, with a high of 225,304 new phishing sites …
Phishing gangs mounting high-ticket BEC attacks, average loss now $80,000
Companies are losing money to criminals who are launching Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks as a more remunerative line of business than retail-accounts phishing, APWG …
Agari Active Defense delivers actionable BEC intelligence through active threat actor engagement
Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, unveiled Agari Active Defense with a new service that delivers actionable threat intelligence …
Almost three-quarters of all phishing sites now use SSL protection
The total number of phishing sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) worldwide in October through December 2019 was 162,155, following the all-time-high of …
Why the 2020 US presidential election is still vulnerable to foreign interference
With the international political situation becoming increasingly fraught and divisive, it is hard to ignore the shadow of foreign interference looming over electoral …
Phishing attacks at highest level in three years
The number of phishing attacks continued to rise into the autumn of 2019, according to APWG. The total number of phishing sites detected in July through September 2019 was …
Phishing attacks up, especially against SaaS and webmail services
Phishing attacks continued to rise into the summer of 2019 with cybercrime gangs’ focus on branded webmail and SaaS providers remaining very keen, according to the APWG …
Agari expands its Secure Email Cloud solution
Agari, the next-generation Secure Email Cloud that restores trust to the inbox, announced two complementary innovations that extends the coverage and effectiveness of the …
Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate
Account takeover-based (ATO) attacks now comprise 20 percent of advanced email attacks, according to Agari’s Q1 2019 Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report. …
BEC scammers add payroll diversion to their repertoire
All the attention the most typical BEC scams have been receiving in the last few years must have affected their effectiveness and forced scammers to come up with new ways for …
Agari introduces phishing incident response solution for cloud office suites
Agari Incident Response is the purpose-built phishing incident response solution for post-delivery remediation in Microsoft Office 365 environments. It eliminates error-prone …
Beagle free visual analytics tool helps bring cybercriminals to justice
A team of researchers is helping law enforcement crack down on email scammers, thanks to a new visual analytics tool that speeds up forensic email investigations and …
