Email marketing firm Klaviyo disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained access to internal systems and downloaded marketing lists for cryptocurrency-related customers. Klaviyo says the breach …
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A new report by Proofpoint looks at the email threat landscape in Q3 of this year. It shows that message containing malicious URLs now make up 88% of email-based threats. The overall volume of …
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Email represents the top cybersecurity vulnerability for organizations, a new report by Wire shows. In an attempt to demonstrate why companies should take cyber threats more seriously, the study …
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Email-based cyber campaigns usually rely on malicious links rather than malware-laced attachments, a new report by Proofpoint shows. In the second quarter of this year, the vast majority (85%) of …
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Companies need 212 minutes on average to remediate a single email-based cyberattack, and 11% of firms need more than 6 hours to achieve this, a recent study by Barracuda Networks found. Since the …
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In order to help protect Outlook users against malicious email attachments, Microsoft is adding another 38 file extensions to its blacklist for attachments. The company acknowledges that these …
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A new study conducted at the University of Plymouth underscores that spam filters in popular email providers are highly ineffective against phishing attacks. The researchers found that 75% of phishing …
A new Symantec reports highlights the rise of sextortion emails, which claim that the sender has obtained embarrassing information about the recipient, such as a video recorded by their webcam while …
While 63% of cybersecurity professionals believe that security at their organization has improved in the past year, the vast majority (85%) of organizations suffered an email-borne cyber incident last …
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A new survey by GreatHorn sheds light on the massive threat that email-based attacks pose to organizations. It shows that 22% of organizations experienced a data breach that started with an …
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