Barracuda Email Threat Scanner: New version comes with extended reporting and improved user interface. Free tool detects millions of attacks that are overlooked by many organizations' existing protection.
Barracuda has made further improvements to its Barracuda Email Threat Scanner service. The new version of the free security tool received a complete update of the user interface. The service helps identify email threats that have managed to get through the company's gateway. These threats include very targeted attacks such as spear phishing, compromising business emails, conversation hijacking and services impersonation.
Email Threat Scanner reports attacks
With each scan, the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner provides a report on attacks found within the environment and provides information on domains or employees at risk. In this way, gaps in the existing e-mail protection can be identified and general weak points in e-mail security can be revealed.
New version - new content
The new version of the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner now offers the following content after the user interface update.
- A scan preview page that allows users to monitor the progress of their scan while it is in progress.
- Access to early results when the Email Threat Scanner scans mailboxes and finds attacks.
- Improved dashboard reporting on detected threats to make it easier to obtain specific insights and to interpret the results.
- A 14-day free trial version of Barracuda Sentinel can now be started directly from the scanner. Barracuda Sentinel is an AI-based protection against phishing and account takeovers and can be integrated directly into Office 365.
As of 2020, 4.550 organizations used the Barracuda Email Threat Scanner. When scanning 2.600.531 individual mailboxes, the scanners found 2.029.413 individual attacks. On average, this was 512 attacks per organization. There was at least one attack in one in seven mailboxes (14 percent) even though the messages were scanned by an existing email gateway solution.
Phishing, scamming, extortion and BEC
The attacks detected can be divided into the four e-mail threat types phishing, scamming, extortion and business email compromise (BEC): Of the 2.029.413 detected attacks, with a share of 59 percent, phishing was the greatest threat posed by the E. -Mail security solutions of the companies were not detected. Followed by scamming with 39 percent. Blackmail (9 percent) and BEC (8 percent) were less common because cybercriminals tend to send these types of attacks in smaller quantities because they are highly personalized.
“Spear phishing threats are more dangerous than ever because of the sophistication of the attackers. Although organizations have invested in protecting against email threats, many of these attacks slip through gateways and end up in users' mailboxes, ”said Don MacLennan, SVP, Engineering & Product Management, Email Protection, Barracuda. The numbers proved that traditional email gateways weren't enough, MacLennan said. Customers should also use API-based inbox defenses to maximize their protection.
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