Cofense appoints Ronnie Tokazowski as Principal Threat Advisor
Cofense has appointed Ronnie Tokazowski as Principal Threat Advisor. Tokazowski brings to the Cofense team a wealth of firsthand knowledge and research on Business Email …
Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021
The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021, after landmark increases of 2020 in …
What happens to email accounts once credentials are compromised?
Agari researchers entered unique credentials belonging to fake personas into phishing sites posing as widely used enterprise applications, and waited to see what the phishers …
HelpSystems acquires Agari to focus on enhancing its data security suite
Agari has seen notable growth with its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, which sets the standard for protecting organizations against phishing, business email compromise, …
RSA announces key executive hires to the Fraud & Risk Intelligence executive team
RSA announced Armen Najarian, Leah Evanski, and Dan Welch as three new additions to the Fraud & Risk Intelligence executive team. All three now report directly to Reed …
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 …
