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While every organization across every vertical is at risk of advanced email attacks, certain industries periodically become the go-to target for threat actors. In this Help Net Security video, Mick Leach, Field CISO at Abnormal Security, discusses why the automotive industry is the new most popular target for business email compromise and vendor email compromise attacks.
56% of all 2023 claims were a result of funds transfer fraud or business email compromise, highlighting the importance of email security as a critical aspect of cyber risk management, according to Coalition. The 2024 Cyber Claims Report is based on reported claims data from January 1 to December 31, 2023.
Microsoft has announced plans to fight spam by imposing a daily Exchange Online bulk email limit of 2,000 external recipients starting January 2025.Exchange Online doesn't support sending bulk or high volumes of emails from a single account, and until now, Microsoft has not placed any restrictions on bulk emails.
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The email your manager received and forwarded to you was something completely innocent, such as a potential customer asking a few questions. The innocent pretext disappeared and the real phishing email became visible.
In this Help Net Security video, Josh Bartolomie, VP of Global Threat Services at Cofense, discusses how email will remain a target as long as it remains the predominant form of communication within a business. Cofense researchers have found that malicious email threats bypassing secure email gateways increased over 100% in the past year.
Microsoft has confirmed that some Outlook.com users are experiencing issues with emails being blocked and marked as spam when trying to email Gmail accounts. Until the Outlook.com Team can address this newly acknowledged issue, Microsoft advises impacted users to add an Outlook.com alias to their accounts and email Gmail contacts using that alias.
Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don't meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks. Non-compliance may result in email delivery issues, including rejected emails or emails being automatically sent to recipients' spam folders.
In what was originally being called a serious IT outage at the end of last week, the union confirmed to The Register today that the incident is now being treated as an attack, the full extent of which is still being assessed. The CWU told us on March 22 that its email services weren't working and that it has engaged third-party cybersecurity experts who have been on site since 0900 UTC on March 21.
Employees at US-based organizations are being targeted with emails delivering NetSupport RAT malware via "Nuanced" exploitation and by using an advanced detection evasion method. The phishing emails prompts recipients to download an attached Office Word file to view their "Monthly salary report".