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IAS unveils industry-first ad clutter detection with AI-driven solution

Wed, 13th Mar 2024
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IAS reveals its first-ever AI-based solution capable of detecting and avoiding ad clutter on websites, with the aim to enhance optimisation and deliver utmost efficacy in programmatic ad buying.
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Bumble launches AI tool Deception Detector to counter fake profiles

Wed, 7th Feb 2024
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Bumble Inc. unveils AI-powered Deception Detector to combat fake profiles and scams, resulting in a 45% drop in user reports of false accounts in two months.
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Google takes drastic measures to combat Gmail spam: What it means for businesses & consumers

Wed, 4th Oct 2023
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Google announces new measures to reduce spam in Gmail, requiring bulk email senders to authenticate emails and offer easy unsubscription, starting in 2024.
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Malspam attacks up, new sectors targeted – report

Thu, 31st Aug 2023
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VIPRE Security Group reveals that phishing emails with malicious links increased by 30% in Q2 2023, with IT firms becoming the most targeted sector.
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Barracuda reveals three new phishing tactics used in January

Fri, 17th Mar 2023
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The three new phishing tactics for security breaches include the misuse of web translation, image-only emails, and the insertion of special characters.
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67% rise in fraud losses in the UK in 2022, says money.co.uk

Wed, 15th Mar 2023
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The personal finance experts at money.co.uk, in their 2022 Fraud Report, have revealed the average monthly losses to fraudsters in 2022 to be over £333 million.
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Spammers phishing tourists with travel-themed lures - Bitdefender

Fri, 20th Jan 2023
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Spammers are phishing eager holidaymakers with travel, themed lures, according to new research from Bitdefender Antispam Lab.
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Bitdefender urges caution when dealing with holiday spam

Tue, 20th Dec 2022
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Bitdefender Labs is warning people to be aware during the festive season due to a significant increase in spam scams.
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Productivity wasted as employees sort out spam emails

Wed, 8th Jun 2022
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Employees who receive 30-60 external emails per day could be wasting 11 hours every year looking through and identifying spam messages.
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600 million profiles for sale on hacker forum - Third LinkedIn scrape in four months

Tue, 13th Jul 2021
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LinkedIn has experienced another huge data scape, the third in four months, with 600 million profiles for sale online.
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A brief history of cyber-threats — from 2000 to 2020

Tue, 12th Jan 2021
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Sophos presents a 20-year retrospective of cyber-threats, from the Worm Era to the Monetisation Era and the current Ransomware Era.
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Number of spam emails drops, still accounts for 55% of traffic

Fri, 20th Dec 2019
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Significantly, spam messages account for more than half of 295 billion in 2019, making 55% of global email traffic in this year, the company states.
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Caught in the wild: A look at email scams and spam

Tue, 21st Aug 2018
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Every day cybercriminals come up with a wide variety of phishing tactics with the intent of scamming innocent users.
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Something old, nothing new: Cybercrims still rely on spam

Mon, 6th Aug 2018
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The probability of a recipient opening an email increases 12% if the email claims to come from a known individual.
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Singapore's PDPC vows to crack down on telemarketing and spam

Tue, 1st May 2018
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Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) is vowing to better protect consumers from spam and telemarketing messages.
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New study shows email security systems not up to scratch as malicious emails pour in

Wed, 18th Apr 2018
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Incumbent email security systems are missing thousands of malware-containing emails, putting users at risk, says Mimecast survey.
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Necurs botnet erupts from dormancy to churn out 100,000 spam emails over Easter

Thu, 5th Apr 2018
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One of the world's largest spam botnets is back in action and this time it is spreading a Trojan downloader that can deliver nasty malware surprises.
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GandCrab: The 'agile' ransomware that is updated in real time

Tue, 27th Mar 2018
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The GandCrab ransomware has been making headlines recently for being one of the few malware strains that developers update in real time.
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A guide to staying one step ahead of modern email attackers

Mon, 5th Mar 2018
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Email serves as an organisations' communicative lifeblood, thus making it the most critical vector for an assortment of threats.
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New email spam campaign ditches traditional Office macro infection tactic

Mon, 19th Feb 2018
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A new wave of spam emails use Microsoft Office documents to download password stealers without having to activate Macros.