Cybercrime continues to increase, and cybercriminals persist in developing new and more insidious approaches to escalate their success rate at compromising business networks and stealing credentials, data and cash. These attacks are becoming more sophisticated, highly targeted and increasingly costly.
The emerging attack techniques being used by cyber criminals are designed to evade traditional email security, including gateways and spam filters. More often than not, the attacks originate from high-reputation domains or already-compromised email accounts, and don’t necessarily include malicious links or attachments. Because most traditional email security techniques rely on domain reputation and email credentials, the attacks are more likely to be successful.