Phishers’ Favorite Report Reveals Massive Increase in WhatsApp Phishing URLs
The Q4, 2019 Phishers’ Favorite report from email security firm Vade Secure shows PayPal is the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks, making it two successive quarters at the top of the list. In Q4, 2019, Vade Secure detected 11,392 new PayPal phishing URLs at a rate of 124 new URLs a day. While the number of new PayPal URLs fell 31.2% from Q3, 2019, detections are up 23% on this time last year. Second place went to Facebook,...
Ashley Madison Extortion Scams Show Repercussions from Data Breaches Can Last Forever
Almost five years ago, Ashley Madison experienced a massive data breach. Hackers stole the information from 32 million accounts and the data was dumped online. Included in that data set were names, phone numbers, addresses, credit card details, passwords and other sensitive information. That information was used in a plethora of scams, spam campaigns, and many users suffered fraud as a result. There were even several suicides as a...
Vade Secure Adds Auto-Remediate Feature to its Office 365 Email Security Solution
Vade Secure has announced it has launched a new email security feature for Managed Service providers (MSPs) to allow them to better protect their clients’ Office 365 environments with minimal management overhead. The new feature – Auto-Remediate for Vade Secure for Office 365 – provides a layer of continuous, automated protection for Office 365 through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Vade Secure uses...
General Catalyst Enters into €70 Million Finance Agreement with Vade Secure
Vade Secure has announced it has secured €70 million in funding from General Catalyst. The money will be invested in machine learning technology for its predictive email security solution to improve its threat detection capabilities and for improvements to its email security solution for Office 365. Vade Secure is also planning a major global expansion and part of the finance will be used to expand its global footprint and accelerate...