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January 28th is Data Privacy Day, where individuals and organizations alike can take part in the international effort to safeguard privacy and data.

New research from the Abnormal Threat Intelligence team shows that ransomware delivery methods have evolved, payouts are growing in frequency and total cost, and there are more malicious actors participating in ransomware than ever before.

Abnormal's fundamental job is to detect malicious emails like phishing and business email compromise attacks and other malicious events, such as suspicious sign-ins that indicate an account has been hacked.

When the typical person thinks about cybercrime, they may think of ransomware or identity theft, or perhaps the ubiquitous Nigerian prince scams targeting their unsuspecting grandmother

Learn how customers have influenced the latest round of product enhancements to better protect your organization from email-borne threats.

As a growing startup, things are constantly changing. From our booming customer base to expanding product lines, Abnormal Security is quickly becoming familiar with the idea of scaling.

Abnormal’s relentless pursuit of innovation significantly improves the detection efficacy of hidden payloads in emails by an additional 5%.

Estimating both the time and cost to complete a task has been a continual challenge for engineering teams as long as I’ve been working in industry. Coordinating the complex interactions and execution task sequencing across multiple tasks and people is a complex, ever-evolving challenge, and one that most teams struggle with daily.

Phishing attacks are on the rise; the FBI reports that such attacks cost $52 million in 2022, and phishing has been the most common cybercrime reported to the IC3 since 2019. If you're one of the many people targeted by a phishing email, you're not alone.

We've arrived at that time of year—a time for reflection and celebration and spending time with family, and also that time of year where the cyber grinches hope to spoil the holiday fun.

Over the last few days, Abnormal has successfully blocked multiple attempts by attackers to deliver emails similar to these to our customers’ unsuspecting end users.

Customers place tremendous trust in Abnormal to protect them from the full spectrum of attacks when they provide us access to the email stored in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. To that end, we’re focused on protecting your data and building your trust.

Tim Tully, Partner at Menlo Ventures, grew up in Silicon Valley, where a love for coding was kindled in him. Tim is a technologist to the core, which innately led him to become an elite technical leader at companies like Splunk and Yahoo.

Abnormal Security recently identified a scam aimed at the Canadian electronic travel authorization (eTA) program, which bears a striking resemblance to a long-standing fraud scheme described in our post from several weeks ago targeting TSA travel program applicants.

Managing and monitoring an Abuse Mailbox can be a significant pain point for IT security teams, particularly large organizations with thousands of employees.

Meeting invites are one of the most common types of emails sent today, so it should come as no surprise that attackers have found a way to manipulate them. Scores of recipients that utilize Abnormal Security recently received emails that contained a .ics attachment—an invitation file commonly used to populate online calendar applications with meeting and event information.

At a hyper-growth startup, a solution from six months ago will unfortunately no longer scale. The business is growing rapidly, and this traffic to this service in particular was growing at an unprecedented rate. We hit a point where it needed re-architecting to support 10x the current scale.

Learn about Abnormal’s enhanced SIEM export schema, which provides centralized visibility into email threats

The phishing email is one of the oldest and most successful types of cyberattacks. Attackers have long used phishing as a common attack vector to steal sensitive information or credentials from their victims. While most phishing emails are relatively simple to spot, the number of successful attacks has grown in recent years.

For those of you who have visited the Abnormal website over the last month, you’ve seen something different—a redesigned brand focused on precision. It’s new and innovative, and different from any other cybersecurity company, because it was created with one thing in mind: our customers.

At Abnormal, our customers have always been our biggest priority. Customer obsession is one of our five company values, and we live this every single day as we provide the best email security protection available for the hundreds of companies who entrust us to protect their mailboxes.

Before we jump into modern threats, I think it’s important to set the stage ​​since email has been around. Since email existed, threat actors targeted email users with malicious messages, general spam, and different ways to take advantage of the platform. Then of course, more dangerous attacks started to come up… things like malware and other viruses.

While cybersecurity awareness is a year-round venture, it is especially important to be mindful during certain times of the year. With Thanksgiving here in the United States on Thursday, our thoughts will likely be on our family and friends and everything we have to be thankful for this holiday season.

Our newest platform capabilities help customers streamline critical security workflows, like triaging phishing mailbox submissions or triggering tickets to investigate account takeovers, through automated playbooks. Doing so can decrease mean time to respond (MTTR) to incidents, further reducing any potential risk to the organization and eliminating manual workflows to save time and increase the efficiency of IT and security teams.