Darktrace is proud to announce we’ve been recognized as a Challenger in our first appearance in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security. In the report you’ll get key insights into the evolving email threat landscape, the requirements of a modern email security platform and the role of AI in advanced threat detection.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are prime targets for cyber-attacks, as consumer spending rises and threat actors flock to take advantage. Darktrace analysis reveals a surge in retail cyber scams at the opening of the peak 2024 shopping period, and the top brands that scammers love to impersonate. Plus, don’t forget to check out our top tips for holiday-proofing your SOC before you clock off for the festive season.

Spanish-language naming conventions complicate identity mapping for spoofing & especially whale-spoofing detection. Darktrace / EMAIL incorporates parsing logic that allows for faithful spoofing detection in conjunction with anomaly detection.

In a recent incident, Darktrace uncovered a M365 account takeover attempt targeting a company in the manufacturing industry. The attacker executed a sophisticated phishing attack, gaining access through the organization’s SaaS platform. This allowed the threat actor to create a new inbox rule, potentially setting the stage for future compromises.

Discover how Darktrace identified a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) attack to successfully acquire a prospective customer in a trial alongside two other email security vendors. This case demonstrates the clear differentiator of true unsupervised machine learning applied to the right use cases, compared to miscellaneous vendor hype around AI.

Generative AI tools have increased the risk of BEC, and traditional cybersecurity defenses struggle to stay ahead of the growing speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks. Only multilayered, defense-in-depth strategies can counter the AI-powered BEC threat.

Darktrace prevented a Critical National Infrastructure organization from falling victim to a SharePoint phishing attack originating from one of its trusted suppliers. This blog discusses common perceptions of zero-trust in email security, how AI that uses anomaly-based threat detection embodies core zero-trust principles and the relevance of this approach to securing CNI bodies with complex but interdependent supply chains from Cloud account compromise. 

Safelink Smuggling is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but Darktrace analysts have seen a notable increase recently. Read this blog to learn how threat actors are deploying this technique in email attacks, how vendors can mitigate Safelink Smuggling attempts, and why defense-in-depth is the solution.

WarmCookie is a backdoor malware strain that allows threat actors to gather sensitive system information, facilitating further cyber attacks against their targets. Between April and June 2024, Darktrace’s Threat Research team investigated instances of WarmCookie on multiple customer networks, read on to learn more about their findings and the tactics used by this threat.

In early 2024, the TA577 threat group was observed utilizing a new attack chain to steal NTLM authentication data. Targets received a phishing email containing a ZIP file attachment which facilitated connection to malicious infrastructure, with NTLM hashes ultimately gathered by attackers. Here we detail Darktrace’s detection of this activity across its customer base.

Darktrace continues to innovate with Microsoft in the shared mission to deliver proactive cyber protection tailored to every organization. Joint customers benefit from two distinct, complementary security approaches – combining large scale threat intelligence with enterprise-native security insights – to address the full range of email threats.

Darktrace/Email detected a phishing attack that had originated from LinkedIn, where the attacker impersonated a well known construction company to conduct a credential harvesting attack on the target. Darktrace’s ActiveAI Security Platform played a critical role in investigating the activity and initiating real-time responses that were outside the physical capability of human security teams.

In recent months, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of attacks using Microsoft Teams as a threat vector. This blog will explore why Teams is becoming such a popular entry point, how built-in and market security offerings fail to address sophisticated Teams threats, and why behavioral AI is the solution to early detection of Teams-based social engineering and account compromise.

In this blog we examine how Darktrace was able to detect and block malicious phishing emails sent via Microsoft Teams that were impersonating an international hotel chain.

This blog explores how Darktrace/Email was able to successfully identify a wave of phishing emails sent from addresses belonging to a major fast-food chain which were leveraged in a coordinated attack. Despite the use of non-English language emails and payloads hidden behind QR codes, Darktrace was able to detect the attack and block the phishing emails in the first instance.

Most email security solutions either assume end-user reporting is of poor quality, so don’t prioritize it, or triage every user-reported email equally without any attempt to improve long-term efficiency. This blog explores how Darktrace aims to improve user reporting from the ground up, reducing the 90% falsely reported phishing and decreasing the load on security teams.

Using data from Darktrace's End of Year Threat Report 2023 this blog details how cyber attackers are increasingly using cloud-based services including Dropbox and Microsoft 365 to stealthily bypass detection by traditional email security solutions.

In 2024, email security challenges have evolved far beyond inbound attacks, as cyber attackers increasingly leverage AI and employ multi-vector techniques that penetrate every facet of organizational communication. Read how the largest ever update to Darktrace / EMAIL introduces new innovations designed to address the nature of modern email threats.

Learn about the cyber risks posed by advanced phishing attacks and how AI can enhance security solutions to defend against them.

Discover how phishing attacks are exploiting Dropbox. Learn how to protect yourself from these threats with Darktrace’s latest analysis.