- Valimail Tools Now Offered Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Email authentication solutions will be provided via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the company says. ...
- Cyber Fraud Insurance Claims Are On The Rise: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 11, 2020
Ransomware is the most common form of attack, but business email compromise claims have increased by 67%, Coalition reports. ...
- Phishing Artists Use Microsoft Logo and Dotloop Boilerplate, Retarus Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
The emails contain links to fake real estate contracts, with the object of getting victims to surrender their passwords. ...
- SendGrid Hit With Account Takeovers, Passwords Sold To Spammers: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 28, 2020
Twilio is working on requiring two-factor authentication for customer accounts, the company says. ...
- Fly By Night: Airline Emails Wide Open To Cyber Fraud, Study Finds
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Only 7% of airlines worldwide protect travelers with 'Reject,' the highest level of DMARC protection, Proofpoint reports. And you thought lack of social distancing on flights was the main hassle ...
- Google Tests Domain URLs That Aim To Help Prevent Scams, Phishing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Google is testing a feature that will display a website domain name on the Google Chrome address bar, rather than the full URL, allowing people to read and identify the ...
- Phishing Campaigns Now Target Office 365 Executive Accounts: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Researchers have seen an uptick in business email compromise attacks. Many now target Office 365 executive accounts. ...
- Cyber Criminals Exploit COVID-19, Study Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Agari reports a 3,000% increase in COVID-19-themed phishing attacks from March to June. ...
- DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 3, 2020
A federal court rules that The Spamhaus Project wrongfully listed the company on its blocklist for three years. ...
- State And Local Election Administrators Are Open To Phishing Attacks: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Of the election administrators analyzed, 53.24% have rudimentary or non-standard security technologies in place. ...
- COVID-19 Scams Proliferating Online, Lawmakers Told
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 21, 2020
"Everyone should remain very skeptical of any email related to COVID-19 coming into their inbox," KnowBe4 CEO told a Senate panel Tuesday. ...
- People Impersonation Attacks Are On The Upswing In Email: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Almost half of IT and security personnel have seen spoofing of colleagues and customers, GreatHorn reports. ...
- COVID-19 Is The Most Popular Email Subject In Fraud Test
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 16, 2020
The most-clicked actual emails sent include bogus password resets, tagging of photos and new messages. ...
- A 'D' For DMARC: Many Firms Have It, But Few Are Enforcing It, Study Shows
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
The enforcement rate is 13.9% across industries -- only the government gets a high mark, Valimail reports. ...
- Microsoft Seizes Domain Names Related To COVID-19 Phishing Scams
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Microsoft recently observed renewed attempts by cyber criminals to use COVID-19-related lures in phishing emails and links to target victims. ...
- Agari Summer Release Adds Anti-Email Phishing Features
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Chief information security officers can block business email compromise attacks unique to their firms, the company says. ...
- Area 1 Security Raises $25 Million, Names Patrick Sweeney As CEO
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 29, 2020
The company says it preempts phishing attacks in the early stages. Sweeney's most recent post was at Talari Networks. ...
- Amazon Counterfeit Crime Unit Launches, Follows Similar Crackdown By Google
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Amazon said it will work with independent investigations and aid law enforcement officials worldwide in criminal actions against counterfeiters. The unit will mine Amazon's data, collect information from external resources ...
- BIMI Gets A Boost With DigiCert-Valimail Partnership
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 23, 2020
The arrangement is designed to help brands implement DMARC and display their brand logos in email subject lines. ...
- Ironscales Debuts Phishing Emulator To Help Brands Test Their Email Security
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 11, 2020
Firms can use the new tool to relaunch real-world phishing attacks designed to bypass secure gateways, the company says. ...
- Firms Unite To Fight COVID-19 Spam
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Google, Verizon, Comcast and others have formed an initiative to fight COVID-19-related spam, calling on firms to add protections against phishing. ...
- COVID-19 Drives Increase In Email Spoofing Attacks: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Most companies experienced downtime from phishing over the past year, Mimecast reports. ...
- Massive New Global Phishing Scam Detected
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 5, 2020
Spoofed voicemail emails appear to be coming from a PBX integration. And other schemes are on the rise. ...
- INKY Garners $20 Million In Series B Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 4, 2020
INKY Technology Corp. has pulled in $20 million in funding, which will fuel the company's expansion in Europe, Asia and Latin America. ...
- Home Is Where The Hack Is: Remote Workforces Present Security Challenges
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Phishing and malware are the biggest threats, and there are many obstacles to securing work-at-home, Cybersecurity Insiders reports. ...
- Cyber Crime Continues To Climb, With Financial Gain The Main Objective
Digital News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 19, 2020
A record 157,525 incidents and 108,069 breaches were analyzed from 81 countries covering 16 industries in a report from Verizon Business. Money -- not espionage -- was the main goal ...
- Phishing Campaigns Spoof Government and Groups Worldwide: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 15, 2020
The templates mimic the websites of the CDC, IRS and WHO, according to a report by Proofpoint. ...
- Database Prevails Against Spamhaus, But Not Entitled To Removal From Blocklist
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Database USA may be eligible to recover monetary damages from Spamhaus for any lost profits incurred as a result of being on the blocklist. ...
- Twilio SendGrid Partners With Valimail To Bolster Email Domain Security
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, May 7, 2020
Bad actors are spoofing such groups as the CDC, WHO and NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic, Twilio SendGrid notes. ...
- Workers Can't Define Ransomware And Are Ignoring Security Best Practices: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Boomers are more likely than younger people to know what phishing and ransomware are. But millennials and Gen Z are more hip to smishing and vishing, Proofpoint reports. ...
