LEESBURG, Va. LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PhishMe Inc., the leading provider of human phishing defense solutions,
announced today the integration of critical content into PhishMe
Simulator™ to help prepare employees for trending phishing attacks and
damaging payloads. The Active Threats update allows operators to quickly
utilize phishing templates based on current real-world attacks that are
targeting organizations, such as Business Email Compromise (BEC) and
Ransomware. Simulating these types of attacks ensures users are aware of
the new techniques used by phishers and empowers operators with a
resource to combat new threats early on.
Based on intelligence gathered by PhishMe Research, the new phishing
email simulations represent the most pertinent and recent phishing
attacks, and evolve as new and different methods are utilized by the
threat actors. Current simulations include the most dangerous phishing
attacks today Business Email Compromise and Ransomware.
Business Email Compromise: According to the
latest alert issued by the FBI, enterprises have lost more than $2.3
billion to Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. A BEC scheme
typically targets companies working with foreign suppliers and employees
who regularly perform wire transfers.
Attackers are known to go after employees who manage money by spoofing
senior management email addresses and using language specific to the
company they are targeting as they request a wire fund transfer using
dollar amounts that lend legitimacy.
Ransomware: Ransomware locks your computer
screen and prevents you from accessing files until a ransom is paid and,
according to the FBI, criminals are netting an estimated $150 million a
year through these scams. Ransomware is a growing concern for companies
of all sizes and in all industries. The recently released PhishMe
Q1 Malware Report revealed that ransomware payloads comprised 93% of
all phishing emails analyzed in March 2016 as compared to 8% in October
2015.
“It’s near impossible for enterprises to expect their employees to
recognize and resist constantly evolving, increasingly sophisticated
phishing attacks,” said Rohyt Belani, CEO and Co-Founder of PhishMe.
“Active Threats equips PhishMe Simulator operators with the most
relevant, critical examples to keep all employees up to speed with new
phishing attempts. It’s a real-time inoculation to build immunity
against the most relevant threats at the time.”
PhishMe Simulator was designed to condition employees to recognize and
report malicious phishing email that bypasses technology layers. By
empowering employees as the last line of defense, organizations improve
their ability to fight prolific cyber threats before they infiltrate the
network and suffer data loss.
PhishMe will be demonstrating their new Active Threats capabilities
alongside their human phishing defense suite this week at Infosecurity
Europe in London, UK – June 7th – 9th 2016.
For more information on PhishMe’s enterprise phishing defense solution,
please visit http://phishme.com/product-services/pm-solution/
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About PhishMe
PhishMe is the leading provider of human-focused phishing defense
solutions for organizations concerned about their susceptibility to
today’s top attack vector — spear phishing. PhishMe’s
intelligence-driven platform turns employees into an active line of
defense by enabling them to identify, report, and mitigate spear
phishing, malware, and drive-by threats. Our open approach ensures that
PhishMe integrates easily into the security technology stack,
demonstrating measurable results to help inform an organization’s
security decision making process. PhishMe’s customers include the
defense industrial base, energy, financial services, healthcare, and
manufacturing industries, as well as other Global 1000 entities that
understand changing user security behavior will improve security, aid
incident response, and reduce the risk of compromise.