Tag: Email

Companies in the U.S. fired an employee after 40 percent of email fraud attacks that occurred over the past two years, a new survey revealed.

A new security intelligence report revealed that attackers are combining botnets, ransomware and phishing campaigns to create a triple threat that's hard to defeat and even harder to dislodge.

A new study on incident response revealed that more than half of external attackers use social engineering in targeted campaigns against organizations in various sectors.

The volume of malicious email reached a record 14.5 billion messages over the course of 2017, according to a new global IT security research report that suggested even bigger threats to come this year. According to AppRiver, the cloud-based data...

In recent months, security researchers have identified Punycode attacks as part of malvertising and phishing campaigns targeting both individual users and major email providers.

Security vulnerabilities stemming from improper handling of non-ASCII characters in email headers could enable fraudsters to launch spoofing attacks.

Owners of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should follow these IT security best practices to protect their data and gain a competitive advantage.

A malware researcher uncovered a spamming operation that compromised more than 711 million email addresses, the largest known data breach of its kind.

A new vulnerability called ROPEMAKER could enable threat actors to replace a benign URL with a malicious one after an email has already been sent.

To protect their users from spam and phishing attacks, security professionals should adopt a basic, layered approach to email security.