Malicious Emails stories

Kaspersky’s latest statistics for Southeast Asia reveal that 43,445,502 phishing attempts were successfully blocked by Kaspersky Solutions in 2022.

More than half (60%) of organisations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months.

Cybersecurity company Red Sift has launched a new product to help security experts reduce the amount of time spent investigating malicious emails.

Not only is email everywhere, but it is ‘built-in’ to our lives as a required mode of communication for too many activities to name.

DeltaNet International has released its Phishing Simulator tool, designed to help organisations strengthen their cybersecurity awareness.

MailGuard has intercepted phishing emails designed to harvest personal details from LinkedIn members.

Researchers warn of increased cybercrime on and around Amazon Prime Day 2021 as malicious activity surges.

Research finds that malicious emails spend an average of 83 hours in employees inboxes before being noticed.

The email messages included spam, malware and phishing attacks.

Naikon’s primary method is exploit the trust and diplomatic relations between departments and governments to increase the chances of its attack succeeding.

Email attacks are having a major impact on businesses, with ever-evolving security concerns proving a challenge for IT security professionals.

While there are occasionally very advanced new threats, these are massively outnumbered by common-or-garden email fraud, ransomware attacks and well-worn old exploits.

Barracuda Networks found that 30% of respondents had fallen victim to a ransomware attack, with almost three quarters revealing the attacks had originated from email.

Popular email security programmes may fail to detect as much as 25% of all emails with malicious or dangerous attachments, a study from Mimecast says.

Barracuda's SVP shares some startling new research - 80% of EMEA organisations faced an email attack last year, while 73% believe they're increasing.

A new study from Barracuda has revealed an increasingly popular method of cybercrime - steal email credentials then steal money from colleagues.

RepKnight published an 'alternative olympics' medal table that details the countries that feature most heavily on the dark web - infographic included.

A customer-facing organisation will receive hundreds, if not thousands of emails every day, each one containing personal identifiers.

More than 205 billion emails are sent and received every day with that number increasing every year - something hackers are keenly aware of.

Barracuda looks into a new phishing attack that impersonates popular web services to entice victims into giving away their credentials.

The Australasian region now has its first partner in the Global Cyber Alliance – New Zealand firm SAM for Compliance.

Proofpoint has released the findings from its massive Quarterly Threat Report – some of which are astonishing.