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.

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.

Safelink Smuggling is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but Darktrace analysts have seen a notable increase recently. Read this blog to learn how threat actors are deploying this technique in email attacks, how vendors can mitigate Safelink Smuggling attempts, and why defense-in-depth is the solution.

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.

In recent months, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of attacks using Microsoft Teams as a threat vector. This blog will explore why Teams is becoming such a popular entry point, how built-in and market security offerings fail to address sophisticated Teams threats, and why behavioral AI is the solution to early detection of Teams-based social engineering and account compromise.

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.

Using data from Darktrace's End of Year Threat Report 2023 this blog details how cyber attackers are increasingly using cloud-based services including Dropbox and Microsoft 365 to stealthily bypass detection by traditional email security solutions.

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.

Learn about the cyber risks posed by advanced phishing attacks and how AI can enhance security solutions to defend against them.

Discover how phishing attacks are exploiting Dropbox. Learn how to protect yourself from these threats with Darktrace’s latest analysis.

Discover Darktrace's strategies for navigating email security gaps beyond DMARC. Enhance your defenses with advanced threat detection and mitigation.

Learn how Darktrace leveraged generative AI tools to detect and combat phishing email campaigns. Discover how AI is reshaping cybersecurity strategies.

Discover the emerging trend of malicious actors abusing the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) file storage protocol in phishing campaigns. Learn more here!

We explore how psychological research into the nature of trust relates to our relationship with technology - and what that means for AI solutions.

Explore Darktrace's successful detection of QR code phishing. Understand the methods used to thwart these sophisticated cyber threats.

Learn how Darktrace detected and stopped a large-scale account hijack that led to a phishing attack. Protect your business with these insights.

Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) can be an effective email security solution, but Darktrace/Email's self-learning AI should be your solution of choice.

Learn about the benefits of flexible deployment with Darktrace's cutting-edge technology. Explore how to stay ahead of email attacks and stay safe with AI.

Protect your organization from cyber-attacks with a strong security strategy. Learn how to safeguard against threats targeting email, cloud apps, and beyond.