Avanan doesn’t conduct polls and has no deeper insight into who will win the US presidency in 2020 than anyone else, but we do have a lot of data on phishing emails....
Avanan doesn’t conduct polls and has no deeper insight into who will win the US presidency in 2020 than anyone else, but we do have a lot of data on phishing emails....
As we enter the 2020 election season, we are once again discussing the possibility of foreign intervention, which puts the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Commi...
Since the first successful phishing attack, we have trained our email users to read every URL before clicking. Microsoft’s Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) included ...
Google's G Suite brings much-needed convenience and organization to the enterprise cloud. But, can a Google Drive account be hacked? Because of its popularity, it is...
Emails with fake invoices has been one of the most popular attack vectors against Office 365 email users for the past several years. The malicious emails are disguis...
For several weeks, we detected (and blocked) an attack targeting one of the largest municipalities in the U.S. that bypassed Office 365 default security, using a sim...
In 2016, we wrote a blog post and hosted a webinar summarizing the Russian hacks against the DNC. Two years later, Mueller's indictments have have both confirmed the...
Ten years is an eternity when it comes to technology. Back in 2008, the Motorola Razor was the most popular cellphone on the market and Blu-Ray was set to be the fut...
Like any business decision, handling ransomware needs to be approached with ROI in mind. Is it better to invest in ransomware-preventing technology, or is the risk s...
As if "the cloud" weren't vague enough of a concept in itself, the vocabulary describing cloud security can be equally as elusive. At Avanan, we believe that cloud s...
Account Takeover Attacks are a nearly invisible tactic for conducting cyber espionage. Because these breaches can take months or years to detect, we are slowly disco...
When people think of phishing attacks, what often comes to mind is a Nigerian Prince asking for a bank transfer. As long as employees are savvy, the risk seems quite...
Avanan has been catching multiple attacks against its customers using a new phishing method called Mailsploit. We have observed this attack on both Office 365 and Gm...
Avanan’s security analysts recently tracked an increased number of attacks against cloud-based HR systems such as ADP, Workday, Zenefits and Justworks, to compromise...
Earlier this month, Verizon released their 10th annual Data Breach Investigations Report. The 76-page report covers the data breach trends across all industries—from...
This attack report covers a massive attack on Office 365 users that leverages the trust Office 365 puts in its own links.
In the past 30 days, the Avanan platform has detected and blocked thousands of unique phishing attacks against our customers. The most interesting are those that byp...
Gmail Phishing is the most popular way for attackers to gain access to your Google Cloud. It can be difficult to keep up with all the methods for detecting phishing ...
May 12th, 2017 The NHS has been hit by a ransomware attack today, affecting at least 16 of their trusts in the UK according to The Guardian. This is a widespread att...
WannaCry infected over 200,000 computers in 150 countries. The large-scale ransomware attack infected a large number of global companies such as FedEx, LATAM airline...