It pays to double check any email that lands in your inbox, because phishing attacks are so advanced that they can now literally originate from a genuine sender’s account – but those emails are far from genuine.

As these threats continue to grow in volume and sophistication, it is imperative that organisations implement a people-centric security approach.

Australia’s healthcare sector is the continent’s biggest cybercrime target, according to a July report from the Australian Information Commissioner.

Jason Howells discusses how MSPs can avoid languishing in melancholy with effective email security.

Phishing emails typically mimic the look and feel of an email written by someone in authority, such as a bank, or even a colleague.

Proofpoint researchers have looked ahead at the trends and events likely to shape the threat landscape in the year to come.

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.

DanaBot is a Trojan written in the Delphi programming language that includes banking site web injections and stealer functions.

An staggering $476 million has been lost to fraud by Australian merchants over the last 12 months, thanks to the deployment of more innovative fraud methods by criminals. 

“Email security is now viewed as mission-critical and requires a multi-layered security approach.”

Proofpoint CLEAR is the first joint solution announcement following its acquisition of Wombat Security.

Businesses can be more susceptible to phishing attacks and business email compromises (BEC) than they realise.

For every 50 emails inspected by email security solutions, there is one unstopped malicious link.

Security experts are seeing the proliferation of sophisticated, convincing emails impersonating C-level execs.

A Singapore technology firm has launched an email security system that fuses AI-enabled machine learning to ward off spam, phishing, and malware.

Ataata's security awareness training and cyber risk management platform will be integrated with Mimecast’s cyber resilience for email.

Emailage delivers online fraud mitigation and email risk assessment technologies and says ecommerce fraud is a growing problem around the world.

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.

Joint customers are now able to access LogRhythm’s advanced correlation and security analytics through email security data from Mimecast’s cloud.

Cyber attackers are increasingly preying on human vulnerabilities and less on technical system flaws to create mayhem.

The way people write their emails could be the new weapon that detects malicious email threats - and that’s exactly what Trend Micro is counting on.

“Emails ranging from opportunistic spam, targeted impersonation attacks and unknown malware are getting through incumbent email security systems."

Attackers are swift to ramp up the volume of attempts to break through defences once they find an effective technique.