With the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the realm of email security, the battle against phishing and spear-phishing attacks requires increasing sophistication from security providers. Leveraging AI technologies has become a cornerstone of defense strategies, enabling rapid analysis of emails to identify potential scams with greater efficiency than ever before. Among the latest advancements reshaping this landscape are Large Language Models (LLMs ..read more

Spear phishing, also known as business email compromise (BEC), was the costliest email threat in 2022, resulting in reported losses of more than $2.7 billion for victims. Meanwhile, email-based phishing produced the highest victim count of any cyberthreat, with more than 300,000 recorded over the same period. That raises an important question. When comparing spear phishing vs phishing, which is a greater threat for your business ..read more

The market for security awareness training is expected to reach $10 billion by 2027, a ten-fold increase since 2014. Despite increased investments in phishing training, the cyberthreat remains the top Internet crime by victim count. According to the IC3 Internet Crime Report, phishing accounted for more than 300,000 reported security incidents in 2022, a total more than four-times the second crime category. The cost of attacks also increased 18% year-over-year to $52.1 (USD) million ..read more

Each year the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report presents a snapshot of global cybersecurity. After the recent release of the 2023 report, our team sat down to examine the findings and compare them with our analysis and observations from the field ..read more

Productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace have transformed workplace collaboration. Today, more than four in 10 organizations use a hybrid workforce, a development made possible by these platforms. While it has given organizations greater flexibility in how work gets done, it has also multiplied the number of vulnerabilities they must protect. Organizations now face the critical need to take a new approach to productivity suite security ..read more

Vade is pleased to announce the release of multi-tenant user-reported emails triage and remediation. Reported emails provides a cross-tenant, aggregate view of user-reported emails in a single dashboard in the Vade Partner Portal. MSPs can quickly triage and remediate user reported emails and similar, unreported emails across tenants in just a few clicks, saving MSPs considerable time and IT resources ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long served as an equalizer in cybersecurity. Hackers possess an inherent advantage in deploying cyberattacks, including when, where, how, and who to strike. But AI has enabled organizations to become proactive in preventing, detecting, and responding to email threats and other forms of cyberattacks. It’s no surprise that forecasts predict the global market for AI in cybersecurity will reach $133.8 billion by 2030.   ..read more

Keylogger attacks use a common and especially invasive type of malware to exploit victims. From harvesting user credentials to facilitating account takeover, multi-phase attacks, and more, keyloggers pose a critical threat to businesses of all sizes ..read more

What is vishing? It’s not a misspelling of phishing, but rather an increasingly common cyberattack carried out by threat actors across the globe. While big companies like Cisco and Twilio have grabbed headlines after recently falling victim to a vishing attack, these cyberthreats can affect any business if left unchecked. Fortunately, as vishing attacks have become more prevalent, organizations have evolved their cybersecurity measures and training to address this emerging threat ..read more

If you’re like most organizations, the term “ransomware” conjures up nightmares of hackers infiltrating your network, encrypting your data, and holding you hostage in exchange for a ransom. While an accurate depiction of a traditional ransomware attack, this sequence of activities overlooks an important step, one that has become increasingly popular among hackers and enabled them to regain an advantage over their victims: data exfiltration ..read more