Email threat landscape: Q1 2026 trends and insights

In this article 1. Tycoon2FA disruption impact 2. QR code phishing attacks 3. CAPTCHA tactics 4. Malicious payloads 5. Business email compromise 6. Defending against email threats 7. Microsoft Defender detections During the first quarter of 2026 January-March, Microsoft Threat Intelligence detect...

Email threat landscape: Q1 2026 trends and insights

In this article 1. Tycoon2FA disruption impact 2. QR code phishing attacks 3. CAPTCHA tactics 4. Malicious payloads 5. Business email compromise 6. Defending against email threats 7. Microsoft Defender detections During the first quarter of 2026 January-March, Microsoft Threat Intelligence detect...

Microsoft named a leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security

We’re honored to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security. We believe this recognition highlights the value of Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s innovative capabilities in addressing today’s complex email security challenges. Protect...

PDFs: Portable documents, or perfect deliveries for phish?

Cisco recently developed and released an update to its brand impersonation detection engine for emails. This new update enhances detection coverage and includes a wider range of brands that are delivered using PDF payloads or attachments. A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads...

Year in Review: In conversation with the report's authors

🎥 Talos Year in Review 2024: Part 1 & 2 - Watch Now! Another year, another mountain of malicious telemetry to sift through. I spoke with a few of Talos' Year in Review authors, freshly out of the sandbox, to discuss the how's and why's of our biggest findings. 👉 Part 1: The major theme of 2024, t...

Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

Cisco Talos observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text salting also known as "poisoning" in the second half of 2024. Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely...

Hidden between the tags: Insights into spammers’ evasion techniques in HTML Smuggling

Cisco Talos has spotted several malicious email campaigns over the past few months that disguise JavaScript code within HTML email attachments, a technique commonly known as "HTML Smuggling." Cisco Talos has noticed that some industry verticals were targeted more than others by email threats usin...

Worldwide 2023 Email Phishing Statistics and Examples

Explore the need for going beyond built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace™ security based on email threats detected in 2023...

Worldwide 2023 Email Phishing Statistics and Examples

Explore the need for going beyond built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace™ security based on email threats detected in 2023...

How looking at decades of spam led Jaeson Schultz from Y2K to the metaverse and cryptocurrency

At this point in his career, Jaeson Schultz has seen nearly every type of online scam there is to see. From fake bomb threats at schools, to "sextortion" campaigns, cryptocurrency mining, metaverse and more of the 2010s, to the earliest type of spam emails in the 1990s that promised to protect...

Worldwide 2022 Email Phishing Statistics and Examples

Explore the need for going beyond built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace™ security based on email threats detected in 2022...

MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment

April 2023 update – Microsoft Threat Intelligence has shifted to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned around the theme of weather. MERCURY is now tracked as Mango Sandstorm and DEV-1084 is now tracked as Storm-1084. To learn more about the new taxonomy represents the origin, unique traits,...

Malwarebytes earns AV-TEST Top Product awards for fifth consecutive quarter

AV-TEST, a leading independent tester of cybersecurity solutions, has just ranked Malwarebytes as a Top Product for consumers and businesses for the fifth quarter in a row. Every two months, experts at AV-Test evaluate Windows antivirus software across three categories: Protection against malware...

Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in Office

Threat actors are finding their way around Microsoft’s default blocking of macros in its Office suite, using alternative files to host malicious payloads now that a primary channel for threat delivery is being cut off, researchers have found. The use of macros-enabled attachments by threat actors...

Worldwide 2021 Email Phishing Statistics & Examples

Explore the need for going beyond built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace security based on email threats detected in 2021...

ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat

Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review, a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the years alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of emai...

Being Prepared for Adversarial Attacks

There is no question that the level of threats facing today’s businesses continues to change on a daily basis. So what are the trends that CISOs need to be on the lookout for? For this episode of the Threatpost podcast, I am joined by Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat...

Cybonet PineApp Mail Relay SQL Injection Vulnerability

Cybonet PineApp Mail Secure is Cybonet Israel's solution for blocking most malicious email threats at the network perimeter, while providing a range of additional options for comprehensive security and messaging control.Cybonet PineApp Mail Relay is vulnerable to a SQL injection vulnerability tha...

Ransomware Phishing Emails Sneak Through SEGs

Secure email gateway SEG protections aren’t necessarily enough to stop phishing emails from delivering ransomware to employees, especially if the cybercrooks are using legitimate cloud services to host malicious pages. Researchers are raising the alarm over a phishing email kicking off a...

Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats

By Waqas The FBI has categorically denied sending spam emails from its server, which according to reports, hit 100,000 inboxes. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats...