Email security

Businesses run on email. And they are often the most vulnerable access point for bad actors.

With the latest funding round bringing Abnormal Security's valuation to $4 billion, Reiser discusses plans to enhance its machine-learning artificial intelligence capabilities.

Attackers have been leveraging a novel phishing approach that involves the creation of an unusual link with an "@" symbol in between, which browsers identify as legitimate domains and therefore allows evasion of security systems, according to Threatpost.

Varonis team shows how threat actors can use spoofed Vanity URLs to launch varied attacks via Software-as-a-Service accounts.

Business email compromise (BEC) has often flown under the radar, creating an increasingly healthy source of funds for fraudsters in recent years.

VentureBeat reports that Abnormal Security has secured a $210 million investment from a Series C funding round, which will be allocated toward improving its cloud-native email security platform to better mitigate business email compromise and other email-based attacks.

Ukraine is being hit by a widespread phishing campaign that distributes the Jester Stealer information-stealing malware, according to The Hacker News.

BEC scams jumped a whopping 65% to a total of $43 billion in losses worldwide in just five years, from 2016 to 2021, according to an FBI public service announcement.