Stop phishing emails reaching your users
Stop advanced phishing and social engineering attacks with AI that learns your business – to stop threats across all communication channels
Email threats are getting smarter
As well as using AI to craft more convincing phishing emails, threat actors are abusing legitimate platforms and domains to increase the likelihood of success – and other email security solutions are struggling to keep up.
Attacker-centric security isn't the answer. Organization-specific is.
Free SOC analysts from manual email triage
Darktrace both educates end-users to report fewer false positives and triages the resulting user-reported mail automatically – freeing up analyst attention for genuine phishing emails.
60% fewer benign emails reported as a result of contextual email banners for users
70% improved accuracy in advanced link analysis for user-reported emails
Darktrace automatically triages and responds to user-reported emails, reducing the average mean time to respond
Targeted response actions tailored to your business
A diverse range of actions
Darktrace can take hundreds of different actions for each email depending on its context and risk level – from locking and rewriting links to banners to holding the email entirely from the inbox
Getting the balance right
Darktrace takes the decision-making out of the SOC’s hands by making a choice for every email – balancing productivity on one hand, and risk on the other – to ensure your business can function as usual
Phishing beyond the inbox
Microsoft Teams is a growing channel for phishing and social engineering scams. Darktrace analyzes the content and context of every Teams message to understand if it poses a threat, catching both payloads and payloadless social engineering.
Even if a suspicious message comes from a trusted user, Darktrace analyzes it against the behavioral profile of that user, protecting organizations from internal and supply chain risk
Darktace alerts suspicious Teams messages to the SOC in a unified platform with email alerts, granting a full picture of the scope of an attack
Signals from Teams help augment Darktrace’s understanding of a user, improving detection across the organization
How we stopped an attempted Dropbox phishing attack
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Initial infection
Threat actors used Dropbox to send phishing emails with a PDF containing a malicious link, bypassing traditional security since both the sender and hosting service were legitimate.
Darktrace identified the unusual sender behavior, held the email, and later locked the link to prevent access.
Credential harvesting
An employee bypassed security measures and accessed a fake Microsoft 365 login page designed to steal credentials, which traditional tools failed to block.
Darktrace detected the unusual domain connection and flagged the activity for investigation before further escalation.
Account takeover
Attackers used stolen credentials to log in from VPN-masked locations, bypassing MFA and evading standard security tools that trust valid tokens.
Darktrace detected anomalous logins and alerted security teams to the compromise.
Lateral movement and phishing
The compromised account created hidden inbox rules and sent phishing emails, tactics that blended into normal activity and evaded detection.
Darktrace flagged the unusual mailbox rule changes, and if Autonomous Response had been enabled, it would have disabled the account immediately.
Protect against attacks that traverse your digital environment
Secures communications beyond the inbox
Effortlessly scale your security to cover your email, messaging, and productivity tools (including Microsoft Teams), tracking threats across multiple areas from a single interface.
Complete visibility and protection across the security workflow
Darktrace / EMAIL unifies insights from across your attack surface, identities, and mail activity (with further context available through the Darktrace platform).
Hardening the attack surface against phishing risks
The Darktrace platform models how phishing attacks might progress and creates phishing simulations to test human risk, with a view to hardening weaknesses in people and technology.
HARMAN International uses Darktrace to stop phishing attacks
HARMAN International is an $11 billion market leader that designs and engineers connected products for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide. It relies on Darktrace to stop sophisticated email attacks that evade native email defenses.
“The number of phishing emails making it to our users’ inboxes is near zero.”
—Thomas Blanchet, VP Digital Enterprise, Cloud & Cybersecurity
of email flowing within the organization is filtered out as malicious and spam
reduction in mean time to contain potential threats
Volume of mail flow across the organization each month
Over 267 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights
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The Impact of AI on Phishing
Learn how AI is lowering the barrier to entry for phishing and enabling targeted attacks at scale, and best practices for email security in 2025.
How Darktrace delivers ROI
Find out how Darktrace blocked over 85% of email threats a previous solution missed, and reduced investigation time of genuine threats by 90%.
How Darktrace won an email security trial by learning the business, not the breach
Discover how Darktrace identified a sophisticated BEC attack to win a bake-off alongside two other email security vendors.
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Cyber resilience across the entire business
Frequently asked questions
A phishing attack is a cyber threat where attackers impersonate trusted sources (like banks, brands or known entities) to trick users into revealing sensitive data. These emails often include malicious links or attachments and can lead to data breaches or financial loss. Anti-phishing services use automation and AI to stop these threats before they reach inboxes.
Some common types of phishing attacks are:
• Email phishing: Generic fake emails.
• Spear phishing: Targeted messages using personal info.
• Whaling: Aimed at executives or high-value targets.
• Credential phishing: Fake login pages to steal credentials.
• Smishing/Vishing: Phishing via SMS or phone calls.
AI can make phishing emails more convincing by mimicking human tone and style, and it lowers the barrier to entry for creating these types of campaigns. On the other hand, it also powers AI anti-phishing protection, which can analyze email behavior and intent to detect phishing emails that traditional filters miss.
Yes. Many phishing emails use personalization, spoofing, or trusted domains to slip past spam filters. That’s why businesses need advanced phishing security and AI-based tools that go beyond spam detection to block evolving, targeted threats.
Darktrace uses Self-Learning AI to understand the unique “pattern of life” for every user and device in an organization. It then detects phishing emails by identifying subtle anomalies in behavior, content and tone – even when threats originate from trusted domains or don’t contain known signatures. This allows Darktrace to catch both known and novel attacks in real time.
Once a phishing email is detected, Darktrace/Email can take targeted actions such as holding the email, rewriting or locking malicious links, or stripping dangerous attachments. These actions are automated and adaptive, minimizing disruption while neutralizing the threat before a user engages.
Darktrace enhances user awareness by inserting real-time banners that explain why an email is suspicious, helping to educate users as they interact with messages. With this context, the user can then decide whether to report the email to the security team, an approach which results in 60% fewer benign emails reported.
Darktrace is uniquely equipped to detect and stop advanced phishing tactics such as social engineering, QR code phishing (quishing), and multi-stage payloads. Its AI analyzes content, context, and communication history – not just links or attachments – to spot threats that bypass traditional filters and sandboxing tools. Its advanced link detection capabilities can also identify the malicious content behind links, even if they lead to a trusted domain.
By recognizing unusual login patterns, redirect behaviors, or abnormal email requests, Darktrace / EMAIL detects credential phishing attempts even when links lead to seemingly legitimate sites. If credentials are stolen and a user is compromised, it can also identify the signs of an account takeover and take automatic action.
Darktrace takes an ecosystem-wide approach. If a phishing attack bypasses the inbox and spreads into a user account, Darktrace’s coverage of outbound email activity, lateral movement, login activity and SaaS accounts prevents the attack from spreading. Darktrace / EMAIL also integrates with the rest of the digital estate via the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, which shares AI insights to improve detection for the whole enterprise.