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Spam, Targeted Impersonation Attacks Bypassing Security Systems: Mimecast

“Today’s threat landscape continues to evolve as cybercriminals adapt their attack methods, particularly email-borne attacks."

Cybersecurity concerns on all fronts. Cybersecurity concerns on all fronts. (Source: Shutterstock)

Mimecast’s “Email Security Risk Assessment” found 26,305,457 spam emails, 27,156 malware attachments, 55,190 impersonation attacks and 466,905 malicious URLS, were all missed by incumbent providers and delivered to users’ inboxes.

This latest quarterly ESRA from the London-based email and data security company presents an aggregated report of tests that measures the effectiveness of widely used email security systems. It reveals many email attacks ranging from opportunistic spam to highly targeted impersonation attacks are getting through incumbent email security systems both in large number and variety.

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Roy Urrico

Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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