Email security

Even though nearly three-quarters of business email compromise attacks during the past year have emerged from Nigeria, Israel has been gaining traction as a base for sophisticated BEC campaigns, as evidenced by the nearly 350 BEC attacks by an Israel-based threat operation since 2021, TechRepublic reports.

It’s the third settlement reached between EyeMed and states in the wake of a massive data breach in 2020, caused, in part, by employees sharing email account credentials.

This category recognizes how email security tools help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of email communications, thereby safeguarding business operations and reputation. 

A new phishing-as-a-service called “Greatness” has been providing affiliates with assets to make convincing Microsoft 365 decoy and login pages.

SiliconAngle reports that Google has announced at its annual I/O conference that it will be rolling out dark web reporting for all Gmail users across the U.S. within the next few weeks after initially offering the service for Google One subscribers in March.

Indian organizations have been subjected to an ongoing phishing campaign by suspected Pakistani threat operation SideCopy, reports The Hacker News.

Ukraine has been noted by its Computer Emergency Response Team to be targeted with ongoing phishing attacks by the UAC-0006 threat operation delivering the SmokeLoader malware as a polyglot file, according to The Hacker News.

Significant credential phishing attacks in March prompted first-quarter phishing volumes to spike by 527% over the previous quarter, as well as a 40% increase over the same period last year, SiliconAngle reports.