- The Top 5 Types Of COVID-19-Related Email Crime
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Malicious actors have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Barracuda lists the five leading types of digital crime. ...
- Microsoft Knocked Out Of No. 1 Spot As Most Impersonated Brand In Phishing Emails
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 23, 2021
Credit Agricole is first, and Facebook second among the 25 most victimized companies. ...
- Google Ads: 3 Strikes And You're Out
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Google has begun piloting a three-strike penalty protocol aimed at accounts that repeatedly violate ad policies. No doubt it's a takeoff from California's three-strike law, now defunct. ...
- Consumer Reports Says Email Providers Are Scanning Emails For Positive Purposes
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 2, 2021
Email providers say they are not scanning emails for ad targeting. But they still scan them to prevent phishing. Here’s a rundown from Consumer Reports on current scanning
activities. ...
- Rhode Island Warns Residents Of Phishing Scam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 25, 2021
Rhode Island residents are being targeted by a phishing attack focusing on professional licenses, the state’s Department of Labor and Training has warned. The advisory states that recipients should n ...
- Harvard Graduates Can No Longer Get An Alumni Email Account
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 14, 2021
The Harvard Alumni Association will no longer allow graduates to create an alumni email forwarding account. The association cites concerns over phishing, spam and email
security. ...
- Smutty Phishing: Attackers Are Sending X-Rated Emails To Lure Victims
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 2, 2021
These types of phishing attacks, using X-rated material, increased by almost 1,000% from 2020 to 2021, GreatHorn reports. ...
- Egress Acquires Aquilai, Launches New Security Platform
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Aquilai co-founder Jack Chapman will join Egress as VP, threat intelligence. Egress is launching a tool that incorporates Aquilai's anti-phishing technology. The Aquilai Ajax brand has been retired. ...
- Security Firm Gains Funding Just As Microsoft Reports Another Massive Email Attack
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 28, 2021
The state-supported attack appears to be focused on critics of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. ...
- Microsoft Reports Another Hack, Threat To Future Of Email Advertising
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 28, 2021
Microsoft today reported yet another large-scale email system hack. This attack comes on the heels of several other breaches including SolarWinds, Ubiquiti, and the Colonial Pipeline. ...
- HelpSystems Acquires Email Security Firm Agari
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 14, 2021
HelpSystems is pursuing a strategy of acquiring adjacent companies, it says. ...
- Most Microsoft 365 Users Hit With Email Data Breaches, Study Claims
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Most IT personnel are frustrated with Microsoft's DLP security protections, an Egress report states. ...
- Deepfakes A Growing Cyberthreat Concern
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Deepfakes have become a weaponized AI tool of concern to marketers and business execs, part of a growing list of automated cyberattacks as people spend more time online. ...
- Cofense Acquires Cyberfish, Will Target 'Legacy' Competitors
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Cofense hopes to serve companies seeking to consolidate technology vendors, the company says. ...
- Justice Department Warns About Fake Post-Vaccine Survey Scams
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, April 5, 2021
Fraudulent emails and texts are promising prizes to their intended victims. ...
- Cyber Criminals Send 3 Billion Emails A Day
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Phishing artists are now sending a combined 3 billion emails per day. They spoof the sender identity in the “from” field to lure intended victims into opening the emails. &n ...
- DMARC Demarcation: Brands Adopt Security Standard, But Still Don't Enforce It
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 22, 2021
Only 14.8% of email domains are fully protected from spoofing and phishing, Valimail reports. ...
- Microsoft Email Users Targeted In Phishing Scam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 25, 2021
Microsoft users have received phishing emails that claim they are from FedEx and DHL Express. The goal is to swipe email account credentials. ...
- Notion Outage Caused By Phishing Complaints
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
An outage at workspace startup Notion last Friday was caused by a floor of phishing complaints. Notion’s four million users were plunged into organizational darkness for several
hours. ...
- Passe Passwords: Some Firms Are Moving Away From Using Them
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 15, 2021
Passwordless technology helps firms improve their security and the user experience, Cybersecurity Insiders reports. ...
- Phishing Was Top Email Threat In 2020: Barracuda
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 12, 2021
Email scams were the second most prevalent attacks attempted against organizations. ...
- Apple Tests New Search Ad, Moves To Become Safe Advertising Supplier
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 11, 2021
Apple continues to make changes to its services in iOS 14.5 beta -- in what seems like an effort to move away from a dependence on Google. ...
- Agari Enhances Its Email Threat Protection Services
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The new offerings help firms prevent losses from phishing attacks, Agari says. ...
- Construction And Energy Sectors Hit With Phishing Attacks
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Phishing artists have hacked construction and energy firms, using credentials that were available with a Google search. The emails used an employee or title within the target company in t ...
- The Most-Clicked Phishing Subject Lines: Analysis
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Emails that focus on people working at home grew in Q4 2020, KnowBe4 reports. ...
- Asian Firm Offers Email Phishing Detection Tool
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 15, 2021
Even people without specialized IT training can use the AI-driven service, the company claims. ...
- Email Security Firm Says It Has Closed New Funding Round
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
EasyDMARC has received an investment from Dutch firm Crosspring, and plans to use the funding to further develop email security initiatives, says CTO Avag Arakelyan. ...
- Cofense Adds Auto Quarantine To Its Email Security Suite
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 21, 2020
Cofense claims it is reducing the time that security analysts must spend identifying email threats. ...
- Ledger Cryptocurrency Wallet Users Hit With Data Leak
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 21, 2020
The company acknowledges that over 1 million email addresses were exposed, along with other information. ...
- The Scammer's Toolbox: How Cyber Criminals Pursue Swindles And Phishing With Email
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 18, 2020
A study by Barracuda of phishing attacks finds that 71% of all phishing emails contain malicious URLs. ...
