Business Email Compromise Attacks Spike 269%

A new Mimecast report finds a significant uptick in BEC attacks, malware attachments, and spam landing in target inboxes. Business email compromise (BEC) ramped up 269% from last quarter to this quarter, according to Mimecast’s latest Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA). This quarter showed a massive spike in emails containing dangerous file types, malware attachments,
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5 Step Guide To Building Your Email Security Strategy

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Email Security: Prepare For A New Threat Landscape

Legacy Solutions Outpaced By Changing Threat Landscape And Rise Of Targeted Attacks Organizations face a changing threat landscape and a rise of targeted email attacks. Security teams are spending an inordinate amount of time responding to phishing attacks. Join this Cyber Security Hub webinar to learn security strategies to prevent, defend and respond against modern
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IRS Alerts Taxpayers to New Email Scam

A spoofed IRS.gov link leads victims to a fraudulent Web page where they are prompted to download malware. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning taxpayers and tax professionals of a new impersonation scam in which fraudsters send unsolicited emails containing malicious links. Emails contain links to a website resembling IRS.gov with details seemingly related
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Beware rogue email rules and forms

Most rich email clients (Outlook, Apple, Office 365, Gmail or Mozilla Thunderbird) allow users and developers to automate tasks based on incoming or outgoing emails. Actions allowed by some of the email clients are far more sophistication than others, although almost all email clients allow automatic email forwarding or blocking/deleting future incoming emails based on
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Sextortion Email Scams Rise Sharply

Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to trick people into paying ransoms by threatening to expose compromising activities to friends and family. Email scams in which cybercriminals attempt to extort money from victims by threatening to reveal something embarrassing about them are on the rise. According to Symantec, between January and the end of May this year,
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Deutsche Bank Email Vulnerability Left Ex-Employees with Access

Failures in computer and control systems are being blamed. When Deutsche Bank left the equities trading business, employees in that division were let go. However, their access to their Deutsche Bank email accounts lasted for several weeks after they were shown the door. While access to trading and other financial systems was immediately terminated along
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Business Email Compromise: Thinking Beyond Wire …

As BEC continues to drive record-high losses, cybercriminals devise new tactics for swindling corporate targets out of millions. Business email compromise (BEC) continues to evolve as a prominent enterprise threat as cybercriminals adopt new tactics to manipulate employees into sending funds their way. They’ve learned from their mistakes to become more advanced and harder to
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Email Threats Continue to Grow as Attackers Evolve, …

Threat actors increasingly using malicious URLs, HTTPS domains, file-sharing sites in email attacks, FireEye says. Email continues to be an extremely effective vector for delivering malicious content because of how adept attackers have become at tricking users over the years. The latest examples include the increasing use of malicious URLs in emails rather than attachments,
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Vulnerability Found in Millions of Email Systems

The vuln could allow remote execution of code with root privilege in more than 4.1 million systems. Security researchers at Qualys Common discovered a remote command execution vulnerability in older versions of mail transfer agent (MTA) Exim — a critical, open source piece of the email infrastructure in many organizations. An MTA functions much like
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