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Email Fraud: How Top Companies Put Others at Risk
Email fraud: Danger from leading German companies

The majority of leading German companies lack basic email security precautions. This poses a danger for customers, partners and employees, as they could quickly become victims. Proofpoint, Inc. today published a new study on the topic of email security for German companies. It shows that 65 percent of the 40 largest German companies do not actively protect their employees, customers and partners from email fraud. This is the result of an analysis of the level of implementation of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) among DAX40 companies. Lack of protection through DMARC sender authentication DMARC is...

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Email blackmail on the rise

In extortion emails, cybercriminals threaten to publish compromising information about their victims, such as an embarrassing photo, and demand payment in cryptocurrency. Attackers often purchase victims' login credentials or obtain them through data breaches to "prove" that their threat is legitimate. To gain a better understanding of the financial infrastructure attackers use in extortion emails, Barracuda partnered with researchers at Columbia University to analyze over 300.000 emails captured by Barracuda Networks' AI-based detectors over a period of one year year when extortion attacks were detected. Below are the…

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