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Phishing campaign spoofs local officials to steal permit fees
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (195+ words) The FBI is warning about a phishing scheme in which cybercriminals impersonate city and county officials to solicit fraudulent payments for planning and zoning permits. Criminals mine publicly available permit data to find likely targets and make their outreach appear…...
AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (731+ words) Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers generate large numbers of messages with small variations in wording, structure, and delivery paths. AI…...
Energy sector orgs targeted with AiTM phishing campaign
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (341+ words) Organizations in the energy sector are being targeted with phishing emails aimed at compromising enterprise accounts, Microsoft warns. The attacks started with phishing emails with "NEW PROPOSAL " NDA" in the subject line, coming from a compromised email address belonging to…...
Webinar: Beyond the Quadrant: An Analyst's Guide to Evaluating Email Security in 2026
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (216+ words) Webinar: Beyond the Quadrant: An Analyst's Guide to Evaluating Email Security in 2026Help Net Security Webinar: Beyond the Quadrant: An Analyst's Guide to Evaluating Email Security in 2026 Join former Gartner analyst Ravisha Chugh and Abnormal's Director of Product Marketing, Lane Billings,…...
What security teams miss in email attacks
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (582+ words) Email remains the most common entry point for attackers. This article examines how phishing, impersonation, and account takeover continue to drive email breaches and expose growing security gaps across industries. Email blind spots are back to bite security teams Email…...
Fake spam filter alerts are hitting inboxes
4+ mon, 19+ hour ago (361+ words) A new phishing campaign is attempting to trick users into believing they've missed important emails, security researchers are warning. The bogus email alerts look like they are coming from the recipient's email domain, and falsely claim that due to a…...
Proxmox Mail Gateway: Open-source email security solution reaches version 9.0
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (244+ words) First released in 2005, the open-source Proxmox Mail Gateway has become a widely adopted mail proxy, positioned between the firewall and the internal mail server to stop threats before they reach users. The platform delivers anti-spam and antivirus filtering to help…...
Malwarebytes introduces security module designed to combat email-based threats
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (469+ words) Malwarebytes announced the expansion of its ThreatDown product family with the launch of a new email security module designed to combat email-based threats. ThreatDown Email Security, powered by IRONSCALES" adaptive AI technology, extends protection beyond the endpoint'enabling users to manage…...
Microsoft introduces protection against email bombing
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (425+ words) By the end of July 2025, all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 customers should be protected from email bombing attacks by default, Microsoft has announced on Monday. Email bombing (aka spam bombing) is an attack technique that results in large volumes of…...
Employees repeatedly fall for vendor email compromise attacks
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (454+ words) In just 12 months, attackers attempted to steal more than $300 million via vendor email compromise (VEC), with 7% of engagements coming from employees who had engaged with a previous attack, according to Abnormal AI. Employees struggle to differentiate between legitimate messages and…...