Security News > 2020 > October > The rise of fearware and how to fight back

AI-powered cybersecurity company Darktrace saw a sharp rise in the proportion of pandemic-related phishing emails.

Darktrace's Antigena Email uses machine learning to go beyond matching an email's characteristics against a known set of malicious ones.

Taken in context, these factors can help spot not only emails with obvious known bad IPs or file hashes, but also more subtle attacks such as business email compromise supposedly sent from real business contacts.

In the case of the fake CDC mail, Darktrace checked the email domain against not just the organisation's email history but against all network activity.

A more advanced approach to phishing and fraudulent email detection will become important as attackers continue to innovate and capitalise on COVID-19.

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