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Which users are at higher risk of email-based phishing and malware?

February 11, 2021

The risk of being targeted with email-based phishing and malware attacks is not evenly spread across geographic and demographic boundaries, Google and Stanford University …

Microsoft to alert enterprise security teams when nation-state attackers target their employees

February 9, 2021

Microsoft will introduce this month a new security alert that will notify enterprise security teams when an employee is being targeted by suspected nation-state attackers. The …

Cybersecurity investments will increase up to 10% in 2021

January 26, 2021

A Canalys forecast predicts cybersecurity investments will increase 10% worldwide in the best-case scenario in 2021. Information security will remain a high priority this …

SCM market to reach $2.2B in total web and email security revenues by 2024

January 25, 2021

The Secure Content Management (SCM) market is expected to achieve an 11.4% compound annual growth rate to reach $2.2 billion in total web and email security revenues by 2024, …

Phishers count on remotely hosted images to bypass email filters

January 15, 2021

Loading remotely hosted images instead of embeedding them directly into emails is one of the latest tricks employed by phishers to bypass email filters. Phishers are always …

Phishers bypass Microsoft 365 security controls by spoofing Microsoft.com

December 10, 2020

A domain spoofing email phishing campaign that very convincingly impersonates Microsoft and successfully tricks legacy secure email gateways has recently been spotted by …

Top digital security worries when it comes to remote employees

November 27, 2020

26% of remote workers have experienced a cyber attack personally, while 45% of employers have asked their employees to use their personal devices for work since the start of …

Attackers finding new ways to exploit and bypass Office 365 defenses

October 26, 2020

Over the six-month period from March to August 2020, over 925,000 malicious emails managed to bypass Office 365 defenses and well-known secure email gateways (SEGs), an Area 1 …

Phishers are targeting employees with fake GDPR compliance reminders

September 24, 2020

Phishers are using a bogus GDPR compliance reminder to trick recipients – employees of businesses across several industry verticals – into handing over their email …

Phishing gangs mounting high-ticket BEC attacks, average loss now $80,000

September 1, 2020

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 …

Brand impersonation is a go-to tactic for attackers, especially for credential phishing and BEC attacks

August 21, 2020

Trends in BEC and email security during Q2 2020 included a peaking and plateauing of COVID-19-themed email attacks, an increase in BEC attack volume and acceleration of …

Assessing the email security controls used by 10,000 U.S. state and local election administrators

July 29, 2020

With fewer than 100 days left until Election Day, a new report from Area 1 Security reveals that states are still in widely varying stages of cybersecurity readiness. Key …

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