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The report also found 21,183,014 spam
emails, 17,403 malware attachments,
42,350 impersonation attacks and 205,363
malicious URLs, all missed by these
incumbent providers and delivered to users’
inboxes. This latest report concludes that an
aggregate 12% of all secured and filtered
emails were unwanted emails and thus, were
false negatives.
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TO DATE, MIMECAST HAS
INSPECTED MORE THAN 180 MILLION
EMAILS THAT WERE DEEMED ‘SAFE’
FROM THESE INCUMBENT SYSTEMS.
“Mimecast has seen an increase in security
efficacy versus legacy vendors along with
detailed information on the proliferation of all
threat types. The ESRA provides deep insights
for our customers on the types of attacks
threatening their business,” said Lindsay Jack,
Security Service Director at Mimecast.
“Attacks we are seeing include key executives
being targeted with cloud storage services
exploits, impersonation attacks targeting
legal, finance and administrative assistance
as well as social engineering attacks against
the C-suite.
“Mimecast helps organisations understand
how they compare with other organisations
in their geography or industry vertical.
Additionally, these reports provide insights
on the rise of new types of malware and key
trends in malicious email campaigns.”
Matthew Gardiner, Cybersecurity Strategist
at Mimecast, said: “Cybercriminals are
constantly adapting their email-based
attacks, looking for new ways to bypass
security solutions that rely too heavily on
reputation-based detection or file signature
matches. This quarter we saw a particularly
large jump in emails containing dangerous
file types.
“Mimecast uses multiple layers and types of
detection engines, combined with high-
performance analytics, a diverse set of
threat intelligence sources and computer-
aided human analysis to identify and
stop unsafe emails from getting into our
customers’ inboxes.” n
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