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Mimecast report finds emails
containing dangerous attachments
are up more than 25%
Latest ESRA detected incumbent email security
systems are leaving organisations vulnerable to
dangerous attachments, malware, impersonation
attacks and malicious URLs.
emails that were deemed ‘safe’ from
these incumbent systems. Within these
emails, the tests found 16,581 emails that
contained dangerous file types.
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
M
imecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company,
has announced the availability
of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk
Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report
of tests that measure the efficacy of widely
used email security systems.
In comparison to last quarter’s findings, this
new assessment found that email security
systems are missing 25% more emails
containing dangerous file types.
Typically, dangerous file types are rarely
sent via email for legitimate purposes, such
as: .jsp, .exe, .dll and .src, and can be used
to facilitate an attack. Detailed Mimecast
ESRAs help organisations better understand
what types of email-borne threats are
getting through their current security system.
Every quarter Mimecast aggregates
the results of individual ESRA tests and
reports to the industry. To date Mimecast
has inspected more than 180 million
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ATTACKS WE ARE
SEEING INCLUDE
KEY EXECUTIVES
BEING TARGETED.
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