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| 21.08.2024 | Fortra Unveils Interoperable Bundles for Email Security | Kate Bolseth, CEO, Fortra
New Bundles Deliver Complete Email Security and Maximize Budget Savings
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fortra, a global cybersecurity software and services provider, announced today the availabili... |
| 19.12.2022 | How you can stop corporate login credential theft | Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here.
Enterprise cybersecurity spending continues to rise. The latest estimate puts the average figure at more than $5 million for 2021. Yet in the same year, U.S. or... |
| 25.10.2022 | Secure corporate emails with intent-based BEC detection | Image: Adobe Stock
In a business email compromise, generally, the attacker uses emails and social engineering techniques to have one person with financial power in a company transfer money to a bank account the attacker owns. This kind of f... |
| 15.08.2022 | Response-Based Email Threats Targeting Corporate Inboxes Are The Highest Since 2020, According To HelpSystems’ Latest Agari And PhishLabs Report | Response Based Threats We’ve seen threat actors continue to adapt 419, vishing, and BEC lures, so it is clear that most threat actors aren’t reinventing the wheel, but instead relying on new variants of the same socially engineered threats ... |
| 23.05.2022 | Vishing Attacks Reach All Time High According to Latest Agari and PhishLabs Report | John LaCour, principal strategist at HelpSystems To remain secure, it’s no longer effective for organizations to only look within the network perimeter. They must also have visibility into a variety of external channels to proactively gathe... |
| 17.08.2021 | Why a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to data classification won't deliver in an era of enhanced regulation | In 2018 the European GDPR irrevocably changed the whole data privacy landscape. Since it was implemented there have been a host of other privacy regulations such as CCPA, CMMC, and India PDP, coming into force around the world. In fact, jus... |
| 24.06.2021 | Over 60% Of Fraudsters Request Gift Cards in Business Emails Scams; eBay, Google Play Cards Most Popular | According to data presented by the Atlas VPN team, gift cards were the preferred payment method for 64% of fraudsters who used attacks to compromise business emails in the second half of 2020.
eBay gift cards were the most popular, with nea... |
| 16.06.2021 | Agari: 50% of accounts are accessed within 12 hours of being stolen | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 16.06.2021 | Agari: 50% of accounts are accessed within 12 hours of being stolen | Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.
New research from phishing defense company Agari found that criminals don’t wait after they compromise accounts in phishing attacks. Agari researchers found that 23% of... |
| 28.04.2021 | Agari Named Leader in New "Frost Radar: Email Security" Report Based on Growth and Innovation | |
| 29.12.2020 | Two Trends Marketers Should Consider To Invest In Their Future | April Mullen, director of strategic insights at SparkPost, is an award-winning digital marketing leader and adjunct professor. |
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| 22.05.2020 | 8 states targeted in CARES Act scams from cybercrime group | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191119-Boyer-Karen.mp4 Must-read security coverage
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| 20.05.2020 | African Cybercriminals Net Millions In Fraudulent Covid-19 Government Claims | Getty |
| 12.03.2020 | Hackers are jumping on the COVID-19 pandemic to spread malware | If there’s one thing certain during a pandemic, it’s that hackers will use it for their own gain.
Don’t be too surprised. Every time there’s a major news story, a world event or even regular national events like tax preparation season, hack... |
| 14.02.2019 | Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine scammers are out to trick you | A Nigeria-based gang of scam artists, known as Scarlet Widow, have been using romance scams to trick victims out of large amounts of cash.
Secure email company Agari has uncovered the scam which involves posting fake personas on the largest... |
| 31.01.2019 | Over 90 percent of organizations hit by targeted email attacks | Over the past year, business email compromise (BEC) scams have jumped by 60 percent. In addition more than 90 percent of organizations report being hit by targeted email attacks, with 23 percent suffering financial damage as a result.
These... |
| 01.11.2018 | Only half of the Fortune 500 use DMARC for email security | When Homeland Security told all federal government departments last year to roll out a new email security policy to cut down on incoming spam and phishing emails, three-quarters of all federal domains were compliant by the time of their dea... |
| 01.11.2018 | Microsoft and Amazon most impersonated in email attacks | Nearly two-thirds of all advanced email attacks used emails impersonating Microsoft or Amazon, according to new research by Agari, the email protection specialist.
Microsoft was impersonated in 36 percent of all display name impersonation a... |
| 16.10.2018 | CIA, NSA and the Pentagon still aren’t using a basic email security feature | Some of the most sensitive U.S. government departments and agencies still aren’t using a basic email security feature that would significantly cut down on incoming spam or phishing emails.
Fifteen percent of all U.S. government domains stil... |
| 24.06.2018 | Battery Ventures Joins $40M Funding for Agari | FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agari, the only cloud-native solution that uses predictive AI to stop advanced email attacks, today announced it has raised $40 million in growth capital from an investor group led by Goldman Sachs Grow... |
| 22.06.2018 | Agari Announces $40M Growth Round |
FOSTER CITY, CA, Cloud-native solution that uses predictive AI to stop advanced email attacks, has raised $40Min growth capital from an investor group led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.
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| 22.06.2018 | Agari raises $40 million to grow its AI-powered email authentication platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It has been a big week for cybersecurity investments, and the latest such startup to announce a notable tranche of funding is Californi... |
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| 22.06.2018 | Agari raises $40 million to grow its AI-powered email authentication platform | It has been a big week for cybersecurity investments, and the latest such startup to announce a notable tranche of funding is California-based Agari, which uses predictive artificial intelligence (AI) to thwart email attacks.
Founded in 200... |
| 21.06.2018 | Cloud Email Security Platform Agari Raises $40M in Growth Funding | Agari, a Foster City, Calif.-based cloud-native solution that uses predictive AI to stop advanced email attacks, raised $40m in Series E growth capital.
The round, which brings total financing to $88m, was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity... |
| 22.05.2018 | Email fraud still a significant threat to businesses | Not so long ago the idea of email fraud mainly involved Nigerian princes asking for your help to liberate a few million dollars.
Things have moved on and the scammers have become more sophisticated, but email fraud is no less of a threat ac... |
| 13.04.2018 | More than 44 percent of businesses fall victim to email account takeovers | Targeted attacks launched via a compromised account were the most successful email attack vector in the past 12 months according to new research.
The study carried out for email security company Agari by Osterman Research reveals that 44 pe... |
| 01.12.2017 | How the healthcare sector is waking up to phishing threats [Q&A] | The healthcare sector is a popular target for phishing attacks, yet it's failing to adopt simple measures like DMARC that could offer protection to both patients and staff.
A new report from cyber security company Agari reveals that fewer t... |
| 06.09.2017 | How to fight back against the email scammers | Business Email Compromise (BEC) has become one of the most popular tactics deployed by fraudsters in recent years. A step up from the numerous but low-quality spam campaigns that clog most inboxes on a daily basis, BEC attacks involve a pla... |
| 31.08.2017 | DMARC -- rebuilding trust in email [Q&A] | Email has become the default means of communication for both businesses and individuals, but as we saw yesterday it isn't without its problems.
A major issue email has is that of security, cyber criminals are getting better at creating phis... |
| 18.05.2017 | European political parties left open to email-based cyber attacks | None of the political parties in the UK, Germany and Norway, all of whom have upcoming elections, have email authentication or protection against spear phishing in place, according to new research.
The study by secure email company Agari sh... |
| 27.04.2017 | Hacking Back: Agari Turns the Tables on Next-Gen E-mail Scammers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What would happen if a total stranger with a poor command of English asked the payroll manager of an American corporation to send him the Internal Revenue Service Form W-2’s f... |
| 02.12.2016 | Social engineering attacks are a real threat to most organizations | Social engineering, as a method of cyber-security attacks, is very popular and quite widespread, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm Agari. It had polled 200 professionals from healthcare, government, financial services and educ... |
| 30.11.2016 | 60 percent of enterprises have fallen victim to social engineering in 2016 | A new study from cyber security company Agari reveals the scale of social engineering attacks on industrial organizations across the US.
Of over 200 security leaders surveyed 60 percent say their organizations were, or may have been, victim... |
| 16.09.2016 | Forbes Releases First List of Top 100 Cloud Companies + 20 Rising Stars | Forbes has released the first-ever Forbes 2016 Cloud 100, the list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, which has developed in partnership with global venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners. In addition to the leadin... |
| 24.05.2016 | Cybersecurity Company Agari Raises $22M in Series D Funding | Agari, a San Mateo, CA-based cybersecurity company, raised $22m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors, which include Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capit... |
| 24.05.2016 | Cybersecurity Company Agari Raises $22M For E-Mail Shield | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cybersecurity company Agari, which guards against hacker attacks initiated through fraudulent e-mails, announced today it has raised $22 million in a Series D fundraising roun... |
| 06.05.2016 | Vetting Cloud Security Companies: Scale VC Sets The Scene | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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| 06.05.2016 | What you need to know about spear phishing | Unlike spam or phishing emails, which involve a broad and varied range of targets, spear phishing is a highly-targeted email attack against a specific group, organization, or even person.
The main aim of a spear phishing attack is either to... |
| 07.04.2016 | Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform™ Achieves AWS Security Competency | Boston, MA - April 7, 2016 -- |
| 23.10.2015 | Technology and you: Staying protected while always connected | We live in a connected world. We wake up and the first thing we do is check our social media feeds and the weather. If we take the bus to work, we can pull out our tablets to read the news, or pick up where we left off with our favorite Net... |
| 08.12.2014 | Latest IT startup gems unearthed in Tech Trailblazers Awards shortlist | Voting is now open: help decide 2015’s trailblazers
London, UK – 8th December 2014 – The Tech Trailblazers Awards, the first annual awards program for enterprise information technology startups, recently announced the third edition finalist... |
| 26.09.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 9/26/14 | Massdrop, PowWow, Qzzr, CrowdStreet, E La Carte, Inspirato, Udacity, Relayr, Bionym, Numerify
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Quiz platform Qzzr raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with additional participation from Pelion Vent... |
| 23.09.2014 | Funding Daily: Cricket cookie edition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Investors fund the darnedest things.
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| 23.09.2014 | On a mission to end email cyber attacks, Agari scores $15M | Wouldn’t it be great if email was safe from phishing and other cyber attacks? Security provider Agari has just raised $15 million to try to make that happen.
Email’s “strength [as an open communication tool] also makes it the weakest link i... |
| 23.09.2014 | Agari Raises $15M in Series C Funding | Agari, a San Mateo, California-based provider of real-time, data-driven security solutions that detect and prevent advanced email cyberattacks, raised $15m in Series C funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $22.7m, was led by Sc... |
| 23.09.2014 | Funding Daily: Cricket cookie edition | Investors fund the darnedest things.
Cricket cookies? Yup. Read on for detail on funding for Exo, which includes cricket protein in its cookies.
IronSource nabs $85M
IronSource today announced an $85 million funding round led by “strategic ... |
| 23.09.2014 | Agari Raises $15M in Series C |
SAN MATEO, CA, Leading provider of real-time, data-driven security solutions that detect and prevent advanced email cyberattacks, today announced a $15 million Series C funding round.
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| 23.09.2014 | On a mission to end email cyber attacks, Agari scores $15M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Wouldn’t it be great if email was safe from phish... |
| 01.03.2013 | Agari Secures $5M Strategic Investment |
PALO ALTO, CA, Agari collects terabytes of email data from sources across the Internet to create a cloud-based solution to assess, visualize, and protect against email threats.
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| 26.02.2013 | Agari Raises $5M | Agari, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of email security solutions, received a $5m strategic investment.
Backers included an undisclosed strategic investor and existing shareholders Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital a... |
| 25.02.2013 | Funding Daily: Red carpet reflections | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 02.11.2011 | AGARI Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding | AGARI, formerly known as Authentication Metrics, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of a solution designed to protect brand reputation, eliminate email threats, and prevent the loss of sensitive data, raised $2.5m in Series A funding.
The r... |
| 02.11.2011 | AGARI Picks Up $2.5M Series A |
Email security company raised investment led by Alloy Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.
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| 02.11.2011 | Email Security Startup Agari Raises $2.5M From Alloy, Battery, Greylock And First Round | Stealthy email security startup Agari has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding led by Alloy Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.
Agari’s technology, which was developed by former I... |
| - | Kokua Line: Oahu man’s stolen identity used in false jobless claim | Question: I am one of the unfortunate people who had an Unemployment Insurance claim filed fraudulently using my name and Social Security number. I called the three credit bureaus to freeze my credit line and attempted to call the UI Depart... |
