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Spear Phishing

BEC Scam: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim

By Adrien Gendre, on December 15, 2022

Imagine your employee receives an email from you instructing them to pay an outstanding vendor invoice. You’re...

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Spear Phishing

3 Types of Spear Phishing Emails and How MSPs Can Prevent Them

By Adrien Gendre, on August 11, 2022

As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), it’s your job to keep your clients out of harm’s way. Unfortunately, in today’s...

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Spear Phishing

Are You in the Office? The Spear Phishing Attack You Won’t See Coming

By Adrien Gendre, on March 17, 2022

Everyone has been the recipient of a phishing email. Most have been the target of an attempted spear phishing attack....

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Spear Phishing Typology Detection added to Vade for M365

By Adrien Gendre, on March 19, 2021

New in Vade for Microsoft 365, our spear phishing engine now classifies spear phishing emails according to threat...

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BEC: The Impact of Foreign Languages on English-First Algorithms

By Sébastien Goutal, on January 07, 2021

Unlike other types of email threats, BEC (business email compromise) emails typically feature only a few lines of text,...

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Defending against email spoofing

By Adrien Gendre, on November 05, 2020

Email spoofing is a technique for forging an email header to trick recipients into believing a sender is a familiar...

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Business Email Compromise: An Old Threat Finds New Targets

By Adrien Gendre, on July 16, 2020

Business Email Compromise or BEC presents a radically more sophisticated version of the age-old “Nigerian Prince”...

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