Gartner’s 2025 Email Security MQ: Promises Made, Promises Kept
Last year I wrote about our promise to anticipate threats before they emerge. This year, Gartner confirmed we delivered ... Read More
Restoring Trust in Business Communications
At IRONSCALES, we believe trust is the bedrock of every business conversation. Whether it's a deal being negotiated, a partner being onboarded, or a CEO addressing their workforce, trust underpins it all. Yet, as we step into the era of Phishing 3.0, that trust is under siege ... Read More
The “Spammification” of Business Email Compromise Spells Trouble for Businesses Around the Globe
Whether it be purely text-based social engineering, or advanced, image-based attacks, one thing's for certain — generative AI is fueling a whole new age of advanced phishing ... Read More
Defending Against Known, Unknown & Unknown-Unknown Email Scams
Phishing scams pose a significant risk to companies and can lead to great loss in the form of stolen account credentials, fraudulent payments and corporate data breaches, among others. According to IBM’s Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, phishing remains the most common way for cybercriminals to gain access to a ... Read More
How to Protect Your Organization From Account Takeovers
The year 2021 was a big one for account takeover (ATO) attacks. According to a Javelin strategy and research study, losses from account takeovers increased by 90% in 2021 to $11.4 billion. Typically, the damage comes not so much from the account takeover itself, but from business email compromise (BEC), ... Read More
Business Email Compromise: Low-Tech, High-Impact Threat
One of the least technologically sophisticated cyberattacks, business email compromise (BEC), is also one of the most damaging. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there were 241,206 business email compromise incidents between 2016 and 2021, with combined global business losses of $43,312,749,946. In its 2021 internet crime ... Read More
New Dog, Old Tricks: Reducing Cryptocurrency Phishing Vulnerabilities
For the security-minded, the rise of cryptocurrencies has been both a blessing and a curse. Coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum theoretically offer a higher degree of protection and privacy than traditional banking, especially in an online world where banking websites share much of our sensitive financial information with untold numbers ... Read More
