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Account Takeover Protection: A Real-life Example of an Email Attack Trend

A unique example of an Account Takeover (ATO): an “injected” email turns out to be an attempt to insert malware as part of a “normal” email correspondence. This is great evidence for the ultimate social engineering attack, showing how attackers are ever evolving, and that everyone needs account takeover protection.

Perception Point Incident Response
Dec-20

Mac Isn’t Safe.
How Do You Like Them Apples?

Apple's security measures aren't enough anymore. Fortunately, there is a new solution. Our Advanced Email and Collaboration Protection now prevents attackers from using APTs to target Apple computers.

Perception Point Research
Dec-20

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BEC, Spear Phishing & Collaboration Examples in a single attack.

While it is a known fact that phishing, business email compromise, and collaboration-tool based attacks are becoming more and more prevalent, it is even more…

Perception Point Incident Response
Nov-20

Securing Beats at Scale

In this post, we detail how we overcame the issue that “Beats” are not optimized for managing authentication at scale.

Boris Figovsky
Nov-20

On-brand Phishing: When Attackers Use Your Assets Against You

A detailed, to-the-point analysis of the most phished brands in email attacks and the importance of asset-based protection as 50% of attacks are actually related to the targeted company and its stakeholders.

Perception Point Incident Response
Nov-20

Top 4 Phishing Tricks for September-October 2020

Stay up to date with the latest phishing trends and tricks. We now focus on 4 points that can surely help you be prepared for the next attack.

Jonathan Levy, Director Of Bd
Oct-20

The Fake Collaboration: Phishing Microsoft Planner and Teams

Fake Alert! Attackers now phish for user's credentials using fake email and web pages of Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Teams. Read the full report to stay on top of the trend and see what you can do about it.

Oded Kalev, Software Dev
Sep-20

A Phishing Link, Some Social Engineering and Evasion – The Foremost Recipe for Cybertheft

What happens if you take a pinch of social engineering, a grain of evasion, and throw some anonymization techniques into the mix? Well, a perfect recipe for phishing. Check this example to see how attackers try to lure end-users to act wrongfully.

Oded Kalev, Software Dev
Sep-20

“Accept Phishing Message” – The SendGrid Scheme

Attackers are ever-improving. See how they learned to leverage SendGrid to gain from two main benefits: evading email security measures and improve their trial and error process to improve their attack success rate.

Michael Calev, Director of Strategy
Sep-20

The Triple Trouble: 3-Stage Phishing Attack.

Perception Point’s platform intercepted a unique, 3-stage attack that uses multiple evasion techniques, in order to infiltrate the targeted organization. In this post, we will present the complex attack and how Perception Point’s unique engines prevented it.

Chen Abadi, Senior Ir Analyst
Aug-20

A Hop to Modern Email

Introduction to one of the most common methods of communication

Oded Kalev, Software Dev
Aug-20

User Experience vs. Cyber Security

There's a tension between security and business enablement. There's also a tension between security and user experience. So what can you do about it? A full article on the dos and don't's on user experience in cybersecurity

Benny Reich, VP Product
Jul-20

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