Mimecast Moves into New 79,000 Sq. ft Central London Headquarters
Mimecast has announced it has now opened its new London HQ in 1 Finsbury Avenue in Broadgate. The company has moved to its new 79,000 Sq. ft office space which will support the cybersecurity firm’s expansion plans. The company I about to embark on a major recruitment drive and will be hiring new staff for its research and development teams. Up to 100 new jobs are expected to be filled over the coming months. The company recently...
Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security for 2019
The Lexington, MA-based email security company Mimecast has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Email Security for 2019. Gartner Peer Insights is a review platform for IT products and services where users of software and services can submit reviews of their experiences with the solutions. The platform includes more than 215,000 verified customer reviews in 340 markets. When sufficient numbers of reviews are...
Business Email Compromise Attacks Increased by 269% in Q2, 2019
Figures from Mimecast show there has been a sharp rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks in Q2, 2019. Compared to Q1, 2019, BEC attacks increased by 269% in Q2. Business email compromise attacks involve the use of a compromised business email account to conduct attacks on employees within the organization or their customers. The latter are now much more common than CEO fraud attacks, which involve impersonating the CEO and...
New Threat Intelligence Report Provides Insights into Email-Based Malware Attacks
A new report has been released that contains an analysis of the most common malware threats that are delivered via email, the most targeted industry sectors, and some of the tactics and techniques cybercriminals are using to infiltrate business networks. For its Threat Intelligence Report: Black Hat Edition 2019, Mimecast analyzed more than 67 billion emails that its email security solution rejected from more than 160 billion messages...
Phishing Campaign Uses SHTML Files to Redirect Users to Malicious Websites
A novel new phishing campaign has been detected that uses an unusual method of directing users to malicious websites that harvest credentials. Phishing campaigns typically use embedded hyperlinks in the message body. Advanced email security solutions can detect and assess the URLs to determine whether they are malicious. To get around this, hyperlinks are often hidden in documents or macros or scripts are hidden in other types of...
1 in 61 Delivered Emails Contains a Malicious URL
A new report from Mimecast has revealed cybercriminals are increasingly using malicious URLs in phishing emails to obtain credentials and deliver malware. Mimecast’s figures show there has been a 126% increase in delivered emails that contain malicious URLs between August 2018 and February 2019. The company has analyzed more than 28.4 million emails that had been determined to be safe by email security solutions and were delivered to...
Mimecast Enhances Its Email Threat Protection Services
The email security solution provider Mimecast has announced enhancements have been made to its email and data security solutions to better protect users from the rapidly evolving threat landscape. A recent Mimecast survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne, revealed businesses are now having to deal with a variety of different cyberthreats and the volume and frequency of attacks are increasing. 53% of companies taking part in the survey...
Mimecast Survey Reveals Healthcare Providers See Email as a Major Attack Vector
A recent Mimecast-sponsored survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics has shown that healthcare providers believe email to be a main attack vector used by cybercriminals to gain access to data and healthcare networks. Email was rated as the most likely attack vector that would lead to a data breach, and such attacks are not just theoretical. 78% of survey respondents said they had experienced an email-based cyberattack in the past 12...
Cybercriminals Increasingly Targeting Employees by Impersonating Businesses
At the Black Hat Europe Conference in London, Mimecast announced the findings of its latest study of its Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) test results. The ESRA tests are conducted on thousands of businesses to assess their current security solutions and how effective they are at blocking email-based threats such as phishing attacks and malware and ransomware-laced emails. While businesses have email gateway security solutions in...
Mimecast Announces New Partnership with Insight
Mimecast has announced its North America division has partnered with the Intelligent Technology Solutions provider Insight. The new partnership means Insight can now provide Mimecast’s integrated cloud email security, archiving, and continuity solutions to its customers. Mimecast was formed in 2003 in London by Peter Bauer and Neil Murry. Since 2008, its North American operation has been based in Watertown, Boston. The worldwide...
Mimecast Report Reveals 400% Increase in Impersonation Attacks
Each quarter, email security firm Mimecast releases a report based on Mimecast Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) tests. The tests show how effective businesses email security systems are at blocking email-based threats and spam email. The tests show the extent to which cybercriminals are attempting to gain a foothold in business networks using malware, although the latest report has highlighted the danger of non-malware-based...