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New Mimecast Threat
Intelligence report analyses
92 billion rejected emails
Mimecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company, has
announced the availability of the
Mimecast Threat Intelligence Report: RSA
Conference Edition.
The report is designed to provide technical
analysis from Mimecast threat researchers
on major campaigns carried out by threat
actors, trends that are emerging from these
attacks, and an assessment of likely future
trends given threat actors’ current behaviour,
events and technology.
The report uncovers the resurgence of
Emotet as well as a combination of
simplistic, low effort and low-cost attacks,
and highly complex, targeted campaigns.
Additionally, Mimecast has launched the
Mimecast Threat Intelligence Hub to
house specific threat intelligence
insights, reports and vulnerability
discoveries from the Mimecast Threat
Intelligence Research Team.
The Mimecast Threat Intelligence Report:
RSA Conference Edition provides analysis of
202 billion emails processed by Mimecast for
its customers during the period from October
through December 2019, 92 billion of which
were rejected.
The team discovered and examined
four main categories of attack types
throughout the report: spam, impersonation,
opportunistic and targeted. Compared to
previous quarters, Mimecast researchers
noted a marked difference in the more
significant attacks conducted: the attacks
targeted a wider range of companies across
various sectors and for shorter periods of
time than in previous quarters.
The one sector that was particularly
targeted this quarter was the retail
industry, accounting for almost a third of
the most significant campaign activity
“Josh Douglas, Vice President of Threat
Intelligence at Mimecast
THE ATTACKS
TARGETED A
WIDER RANGE
OF COMPANIES
ACROSS VARIOUS
SECTORS AND
FOR SHORTER
PERIODS OF
TIME THAN
IN PREVIOUS
QUARTERS.
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