Hear the cybersecurity transformation story of this leading money transmitter, who facilitates more than $9 billion in remittances via thousands of agent locations across the US serving more than two million active customers.

Threat actors often use advanced phishing toolkits and Adversary-in-the-Middle (AitM) attacks in Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaigns, Discover how Darktrace detected and mitigated a sophisticated attack leveraging Dropbox, highlighting the importance of robust cybersecurity measures.

Analyze the challenges posed by AITM phishing threats and Mamba 2FA, and discover how to safeguard your systems effectively.

Darktrace is proud to announce we’ve been recognized as a Challenger in our first appearance in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security. In the report you’ll get key insights into the evolving email threat landscape, the requirements of a modern email security platform and the role of AI in advanced threat detection.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are prime targets for cyber-attacks, as consumer spending rises and threat actors flock to take advantage. Darktrace analysis reveals a surge in retail cyber scams at the opening of the peak 2024 shopping period, and the top brands that scammers love to impersonate. Plus, don’t forget to check out our top tips for holiday-proofing your SOC before you clock off for the festive season.

Spanish-language naming conventions complicate identity mapping for spoofing & especially whale-spoofing detection. Darktrace / EMAIL incorporates parsing logic that allows for faithful spoofing detection in conjunction with anomaly detection.

In a recent incident, Darktrace uncovered a M365 account takeover attempt targeting a company in the manufacturing industry. The attacker executed a sophisticated phishing attack, gaining access through the organization’s SaaS platform. This allowed the threat actor to create a new inbox rule, potentially setting the stage for future compromises.

Discover how Darktrace identified a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attack to successfully acquire a prospective customer in a trial alongside two other email security vendors. This case demonstrates the clear differentiator of true unsupervised machine learning applied to the right use cases, compared to miscellaneous vendor hype around AI.

Generative AI tools have increased the risk of BEC, and traditional cybersecurity defenses struggle to stay ahead of the growing speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks. Only multilayered, defense-in-depth strategies can counter the AI-powered BEC threat.

Darktrace prevented a Critical National Infrastructure organization from falling victim to a SharePoint phishing attack originating from one of its trusted suppliers. This blog discusses common perceptions of zero-trust in email security, how AI that uses anomaly-based threat detection embodies core zero-trust principles and the relevance of this approach to securing CNI bodies with complex but interdependent supply chains from Cloud account compromise. 

Gain insights into safelink smuggling tactics and learn strategies to protect your organization from the dangers posed by malicious links.

Discover effective strategies for disarming the WarmCookie backdoor and securing your systems against this persistent threat.

Explore Darktrace's innovative methods for detecting NTLM hash theft and safeguarding your organization from cyber threats.

Darktrace continues to innovate with Microsoft in the shared mission to deliver proactive cyber protection tailored to every organization. Joint customers benefit from two distinct, complementary security approaches – combining large scale threat intelligence with enterprise-native security insights – to address the full range of email threats.

Darktrace/Email detected a phishing attack that had originated from LinkedIn, where the attacker impersonated a well known construction company to conduct a credential harvesting attack on the target. Darktrace’s ActiveAI Security Platform played a critical role in investigating the activity and initiating real-time responses that were outside the physical capability of human security teams.

Join us to learn about the risks of Microsoft Teams phishing and how to implement effective defenses to protect your organization.

In this blog we examine how Darktrace was able to detect and block malicious phishing emails sent via Microsoft Teams that were impersonating an international hotel chain.

This blog explores how Darktrace/Email was able to successfully identify a wave of phishing emails sent from addresses belonging to a major fast-food chain which were leveraged in a coordinated attack. Despite the use of non-English language emails and payloads hidden behind QR codes, Darktrace was able to detect the attack and block the phishing emails in the first instance.

Most email security solutions either assume end-user reporting is of poor quality, so don’t prioritize it, or triage every user-reported email equally without any attempt to improve long-term efficiency. This blog explores how Darktrace aims to improve user reporting from the ground up, reducing the 90% falsely reported phishing and decreasing the load on security teams.

In 2024, email security challenges have evolved far beyond inbound attacks, as cyber attackers increasingly leverage AI and employ multi-vector techniques that penetrate every facet of organizational communication. Read how the largest ever update to Darktrace / EMAIL introduces new innovations designed to address the nature of modern email threats.