Threat intelligence often has a slightly glamorous (and serious) association with spying and national security activities. In email security, however, it’s slightly unglamorous; mostly involving the use of threat data, behavioral signals, sender context, domain reputation, message patterns, and recipient activity to judge whether an email is safe, suspicious, or dangerous.
Enterprises already know that the inbox is one of the easiest ways for attackers to get into the business. The real question is narrower: when vendors say they use AI-based email security, what actually changes compared with rule-based, traditional email security?
Cyber pirates have found easy prey in real estate brokers, title agents and estate attorneys. Their emails are a treasure trove of information about pending transactions involving large wire transfers. Real estate buyers, eager to close the deal, blindly trust the email they receive and the advisors with whom they correspond.
What do United Airlines and footballer David Beckham have in common? Disastrous leaked emails. In these recent cases, the leaked emails appear to be legitimate, though Beckham claims some of the leaked emails were “doctored.” But how do we know that leaked email messages discussed in news stories and tabloid columns are actually authentic?
…and does it change the result? Who is responsible for the recent Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) hack and resulting emails published on WikiLeaks? Russian hackers are suspected and the FBI is investigating, but Russia adamantly denies involvement. The hackers could be from the same group who stole DNC’s oppositional research about Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump in […]
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