email security
Malicious Spam Comes Roaring Back and Cisco Email Security is Ready
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“Did you get my email? The really urgent one? About funding for your new project?” “Maybe. I can’t tell. My inbox is full of spam and I am busy scrutinizing every email and domain name to make sure the sender is a valid person that I actually know and the attachment is a valid… Oh […]
Under the hood: Why you need AMP on ESA
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With 95 percent of breaches starting with a malicious email campaign, organizations need to be certain that their email security solution will truly protect their data, assets and users.
How to protect against the most advanced email-based attacks
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With over 100 billion corporate emails exchanged each day, it’s no wonder that email remains a major threat vector. Organizations around the globe depend on email to quickly communicate and collaborate. And as long as organizations use email to send and receive files, communicate and interact, malicious files, links and attachments will continue to plague […]
Modified Zyklon and plugins from India
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Streams of malicious emails Talos inspects every day usually consist of active spamming campaigns for various ransomware families, phishing campaigns and the common malware family suspects such as banking Trojans and bots.. It is however often more interesting to analyze campaigns smaller in volume as they might contain more interesting malware. A few weeks ago […]
Malware Round-up For The Week of Feb 27 – Mar 3
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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed over the past week. Unlike our other posts, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics, indicators of compromise, and how our customers are automatically protected from […]
Combating Email Spoofing with Cisco Email Security Forged Email Detection
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In April we covered the description of Email Spoofing using Microsoft Outlook, but what about detecting and mitigating it on the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)? There are multiple technologies that have attempted to address the issues surrounding spoofed emails on the MTA, but they all have shortcomings that can limit their usefulness. DKIM, or Domain […]
Phishing for Threat Intelligence: Using Your Spam Quarantine for the Greater Good
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Cisco’s OpenDNS enables phishing awareness by helping organizations learn about commonly identifiable tactics used by scammers.
Attackers Evolve Tactics to Infiltrate Your Network via Email
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Email continues to be the number one business communication method and is still the number one threat vector. This ubiquitous communication technology also provides an effective path for criminal actors. Today, customers are more concerned about targeted and other advanced attacks rather than spam capture rates. Well-funded, educated criminals employ a wide range of attack […]
Protect against today’s attacks with AsyncOS 10.0 for Cisco Email Security
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New email security release adds spoofing protection, auto-remediation of malware for Office 365 customers, AMP Private Cloud, and more. There’s been a spike in ransomware and spear-phishing attacks in the last several months. Read any news outlet and you’ll find examples of health records and other valuable data being locked up, employees duped into releasing […]
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