Security News > 2020 > July > Email Sender Identity is Key to Solving the Phishing Crisis

The proof is in the results: Phishing attacks of just one type - the business email compromise - have caused at least $26 billion in losses in the past five years alone, according to the FBI. The Heart of the Problem.

Almost 90% of email attacks manipulate sender identity to fool recipients and initiate social engineering attacks.

Domain-spoofing attacks: Emails that directly impersonate a trusted sender by putting their domain in the "From" field of a message.

To protect themselves against this new generation of attack, organizations need to deploy an additional line of defense: Validating sender identity.

To be effective, sender identity solutions will need to address all three types of identity-based attacks.

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https://threatpost.com/valimail-email-sender-identity-is-key-to-solving-the-phishing-crisis/157020/