March 14, 2023 11:11 PM
In order to breach trust and trick unsuspecting victims, threat actors overwhelmingly use topical events as lures. The news about what happened at Silicon Valley Bank is the latest event to watch out for and stay vigilant against opportunistic phishing campaigns using SVB as the lure...
December 12, 2022 2:00 PM
We are excited to share that we have grown our offering under the Athenian Project to include Cloudflare’s Area 1 email security suite to help state and local governments protect against a broad ...
December 12, 2022 2:00 PM
Cloudflare email security tool worked hard in the 2022 midterm elections to ensure that the email inboxes of those seeking office were secure....
September 20, 2022 1:30 PM
Cloudflare started using Area 1 in 2020 and proceeded with acquiring the company in 2022. We were most impressed how phishing, responsible for 90+% of cyberattacks, basically became a non-issue overnight when we deployed Area 1. But our vision is much bigger than preventing phishing attacks...
June 20, 2022 2:02 PM
As part of our exciting journey to integrate Area 1 into our broader Zero Trust suite, Cloudflare Gateway customers can soon enable Remote Browser Isolation for email links. With Email Link Isolation, gain an unmatched level of protection from sophisticated multi-channel email-based attacks...
June 20, 2022 1:14 PM
Traditional SEG architectures were built for the email environments of yesterday. Learn how to seamlessly transition to cloud-native, preemptive email security...
March 31, 2022 12:34 PM
From Jan. 2021 to Jan. 2022, more than 8.5 million (of 56 million in total) brand phishing emails blocked by Area 1 impersonated the World Health Organization...
March 26, 2022 3:44 PM
Learn who made the list of the top brands that attackers use in phishing lures. This bracket is based on an analysis of more than 56 million phishing emails blocked by Area 1’s solution in the preceding 12 months since Feb 2022. ...
February 23, 2022 10:00 PM
Earlier today we announced that Cloudflare has agreed to acquire Area 1 Security...
December 09, 2021 3:53 PM
Gone are the days of the Secure Email Gateway (SEG) being an option. Cloud-native email protection with multiple deployment options are now changing the game. With winter in our minds, it’s time to start talking about “ICE.”...
April 07, 2021 3:12 PM
Area 1 Security and Recorded Future researchers report a significant increase in the number of new wine-themed phishing domains registered starting in April 2020, and continuing through at least March 2021....
April 02, 2021 3:15 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on phishing and cyberattack lures is clear. Area 1 Security identified over 2 million phishing spoofs that exploited the World Health Organization between May 2020 and February 2021....
March 31, 2021 3:22 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced which brands attackers exploited for phishing campaigns in 2021. For example, the World Health Organization and DocuSign made Area 1 Security’s 2021 March Hackness “Not-so-Sweet 16.”...
March 22, 2021 4:33 PM
Area 1 has been doing our own Phishing brackets over the past five years. We took a hiatus in 2020 (as did the NCAA), so today, we proudly introduce the 5th Annual March Hackness: The Phishing Tournament....
March 18, 2021 3:35 PM
A sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targets financial departments at companies across multiple industries, as well as newly-appointed CEOs and executive assistants....
January 27, 2021 11:37 AM
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods....
December 11, 2020 12:03 PM
Our researchers detected an updated wave of Microsoft SharePoint phish that are leveraging new COVID-19 restrictions to steal victims’ login information....
November 10, 2020 2:49 PM
Gartner has named Area 1 Security as a Representative Vendor for IESS. We believe, Area 1 Security, as an IESS, provides the core functionalities of a SEG, but has the advantage of being very quick and easy to deploy, without requiring changes to the email flow at the gateway....
November 09, 2020 3:09 PM
A phishing campaign is threatening targets with false claims of employment termination. The goal of the attacker is to intimidate employees into clicking on a link that will ultimately lead to Bazar or Buer malware infections by way of Trickbot....
