Email security

Threat actors continue to target victims through exploitative and manipulative messaging, whether it's related to tax season, humanitarian aid in Ukraine, or the need for health supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conversation hijacking phishing attacks, which involve threat actors infiltrating ongoing email threads to avert suspicion, have increased by nearly 270% last year.

The FBI's newly released cybercrime statistics for 2021 show that business email compromise remains far and away the largest digital crime. The numbers are not even close. Ye all eyes are on ransomware. The visibility gap is substantial.

Proofpoint researchers say while the motives of the attackers are still unknown, they consider it an advanced, targeted threat.

In a three-day spree, Cloudflare this week announced email security for all paying plans, a free, limited web-application firewall (WAF) and a low-cost API protection option.

Kaspersky researchers say they blocked more than 8,000 business email compromise (BEC) attacks in Q4 of 2021, many of them large-scale events or so-called BEC-as-a-Service attacks.