Fresh SmarterMail Flaw Exploited for Admin Access
The exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability started two days after patches were released.
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Webinar Today: Rethinking Email Security for Mid-Sized Organizations
See how modern AI-driven detection can block sophisticated attacks that traditional tools miss
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Cisco fixes AsyncOS vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2025-20393)
Cisco has finally shipped security updates for its Email Security Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager devices, which fix CVE-2025-20393, a vulnerability in the devices’ AsyncOS that has been exploited as a zero-day by suspected Chinese attac…
Complex Routing, Misconfigurations Exploited for Domain Spoofing in Phishing Attacks
Threat actors spoof legitimate domains to make their phishing emails appear to have been sent internally.
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What security teams miss in email attacks
Email remains the most common entry point for attackers. This article examines how phishing, impersonation, and account takeover continue to drive email breaches and expose growing security gaps across industries. Email blind spots are back to bite sec…
Chinese Hackers Breach Cisco’s Email Security Systems
The Chinese threat group, tracked as UAT-9686, has deployed a collection of custom-built hacking tools to maintain persistent access to compromised systems.
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Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day
A suspected Chinese-nexus threat group has been compromising Cisco email security devices and planting backdoors and log-purging tools on them since at least late November 2025, Cisco Talos researchers have shared. “Our analysis indicates that ap…
Email blind spots are back to bite security teams
The threat landscape is forcing CISOs to rethink what they consider normal. The latest Cybersecurity Report 2026 by Hornetsecurity, based on analysis of more than 70 billion emails and broad threat telemetry, shows attackers adopting automation, AI dri…
Why a Unified Email Security Platform is Your Best Defense
Email Threat Defense’s enhanced capabilities integrate gateway-level prevention with supplemental, API-based post-delivery remediation.
Humans built the problem, AI just scaled it
Information moves across cloud platforms, personal devices, and AI tools, often faster than security teams can track it. Proofpoint’s 2025 Data Security Landscape report shows that most organizations faced data loss last year, usually caused by their o…