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The H1 2023 Email Threat Report examines the email threat environment and focuses on the growing risk that employees pose to cybersecurity.

CFO Adam Meister of Clari discusses cybersecurity spending and risk tolerance amid unpredictable economic shifts.

Learn how validating your tools, ensuring ROI, and extracting the optimal benefits from your investment can help protect you from cyberattacks in 2023.

Discover how ChatGPT can be used by threat actors to run business email compromise schemes and other email attacks.

Discover some of the most significant cybersecurity statistics from 2022 and how your organization can minimize risk heading into the new year.

Reduce your risk of a BEC or phishing attack this holiday season by watching out for these email threats.

Discover the most common types of email platform attacks in your cloud network and how you can prevent them.

Excessive promotional mail, also known as graymail, is impacting productivity and employee morale. Here are 11 startling graymail statistics.

This week, we released our H2 2022 Email Threat Report, which explores the latest email attack trends, including the rise of brand impersonation in phishing attacks.

Our new survey explores the current email threat landscape and what security leaders are doing to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Watch this short video to learn current trends and key issues in cloud email security, including how to protect your organization against modern threats.

Learn how Microsoft 365 and Abnormal work together to provide comprehensive defense-in-depth protection in part two of our webinar recap.

Learn about the most common socially-engineered attacks and why these tactics are still so successful—despite a growing awareness from employees.

High-impact emails are on the rise and secure email gateways (SEGs) don’t have the functionality to mitigate them. Learn how your SEG is letting you down.

The email threat landscape is evolving fast. Discover the new tactics cybercriminals are using and how to reduce your risk of falling victim to these modern email attacks.

Successful phishing attacks have increased by 34% in the last year, making it the most common email attack. Learn why phishing is so dangerous.

The risk of supply chain compromise (also known as vendor email compromise or VEC) continues to increase. Our latest research uncovered some startling statistics about these attacks.

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have increased considerably over the past 6 months. Here’s how cybercriminals are changing their targets and tactics.

It’s IC3 Report week! In what has become an annual holiday for anyone that’s heavily involved in researching business email compromise (BEC) attacks, the FBI released its 2021 Internet Crime Report that details trends in various types of cybercrime activity over the past year.

Today, Abnormal released our H1 2022 Email Threat Report, focused on data from July to December 2021. Over the course of those six months, we tracked a relatively new form of cyber attack—phone fraud that starts via email.

There is little doubt that business email compromise and other advanced email threats are causing significant damage–both financial and reputational—to organizations worldwide. Because these never-before-seen attacks contain few indicators of compromise, they evade secure email gateways and other traditional email infrastructure...

Abnormal Security saw a significant increase in attacker activity in May 2021. Advanced email threats rose across virtually all industry sectors, with the median rate of advanced email-based attacks increased by 64% between the first and last weeks of May. The bulk...

Recent email attacks detected by Abnormal Security, combined with an analysis of historical attack data, indicate that email attacks related to federal taxes are likely to spike in the coming weeks in advance of the May 17th filing deadline. Tax-related attacks in 2021 have followed a...

The prolific attack on SolarWinds and their partner ecosystem will forever change how we view supply chain security and the role email communication plays in it. As the events and details surrounding the attack continue to unfold, we have learned from the company itself...