Data & Trends

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Jaroslav Kalfar

From social engineering and third-party compromise to AI-accelerated attacks, here are the most important cybersecurity trends revealed in the Verizon 2026 DBIR.

62% of Breaches Involved the Human Element: Key Takeaways From Verizon 2026 DBIR

Security Solutions

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Learn what the Canvas breach means for higher education institutions, the attacks likely to follow, and practical steps to protect students, faculty, and staff.

After the Canvas Breach: What Higher Ed Security Teams Need to Know Now

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Learn how attackers exploit Microsoft 365 misconfigurations like OAuth abuse and legacy auth—and why a behavioral layer is critical for modern defense.

Why Microsoft-First Security Still Needs a Behavioral Layer

Industry Research

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The FBI’s 2025 IC3 report logged 22,364 AI-related complaints and nearly $893 million in losses, showing how AI is accelerating business email compromise and social engineering at scale.

$893M in Losses: What the 2025 IC3 Report Reveals About AI-Driven Cybercrime

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Why transparency in email security shouldn’t require ongoing rule maintenance.

Email Security Without the Configuration Tax

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In cloud-first environments, third-party SEGs deliver diminishing returns. Modern email security builds on native cloud protections rather than duplicating them.

Who Does the SEG Serve in a Cloud-First World?

Thought Leadership

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Discover the eight essential email security capabilities every organization needs in 2026 to stay resilient against evolving AI-driven social engineering threats.

2026 Email Security Checklist: New Year, New Inbox Problems

Attack Stories

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Explore 2025’s most sophisticated phishing attacks—from DKIM replay to OAuth abuse and vendor impersonation—and how Abnormal’s behavioral AI stops them.

Security Superlatives: 2025’s Phishiest Attacks and Boldest Offenders

CISO Insights

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Misdirected emails are one of the most overlooked sources of data loss. Learn how behavioral AI helps CISOs detect risky sends, prevent exposure, and preserve trust.

The Mistake is the Breach: Why CISOs Can’t Ignore Misdirected Email

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New Abnormal AI research explores how misdirected email causes costly data loss and why behavioral AI is key to preventing outbound risk.

Data Loss Starts in the Outbox: Insights from the 2025 Misdirected Email Report

Artificial Intelligence

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Explore how Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) strengthens email security with behavioral AI to stop phishing, BEC, and AI-powered attacks.

Stopping AI-Powered Attacks with Abnormal Behavior Technology

Engineering

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See how a manager with no coding background built an AI-powered system to automate workflows, boost SLA performance, and save 40+ hours weekly.

Abnormal AI Innovation: How AI Helped One Manager Save 40 Hours a Week

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Manual email triage drains SOC capacity and delays response to real threats. Discover how an AI-powered abuse mailbox slashes review time by up to 95% and frees thousands of analyst hours annually.

How Manual Triage Undercuts the Modern SOC

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As the battle between good AI and malicious AI plays out in cloud email environments, CISOs are turning to behavioral intelligence to keep pace.

Defensive AI Meets the Inbox: The CISO Guide for the AI Arms Race

Threat Intel

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Major Federal cyber breaches share one overlooked constant: email. This post presents five case studies revealing how attackers exploited the inbox through phishing, credential theft, and forged tokens—and why behavioral, identity-aware AI delivers the decisive advantage over legacy defenses.

Email as the Adversary Foothold: Lessons from Federal Cyber Breaches

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More rules mean more work—and more risk. See how behavioral AI flips the model by detecting threats without requiring constant manual tuning or rule maintenance.

When Custom Rules Break: Why Email Security Must Become Autonomous

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Discover the 8 threats reshaping cloud email security in 2025 and the AI-native capabilities SOC teams need to stay ahead of attackers.

8 Threats Redefining Cloud Email Security in 2025

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Phishing and vendor email compromise are now among the costliest breach vectors, as the average U.S. data breach surpasses $10 million.

IBM Data Breach Report 2025: The Soaring Cost of Email Attacks

Company & Culture

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Catch up on major insights, top sessions, and full on-demand access from Abnormal Innovate: Summer Update, the summit on the future of AI email security.

Hard Truths, AI Beyond Hype: Key Takeaways from Innovate Summer

Vendor Email Compromise

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Vendor email compromise (VEC) exploits trusted partners to defraud organizations. Learn how AI-powered email security detects supply chain threats other tools miss.

Weaponized Trust: Vendor Impersonation Becomes a Top Threat

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Join Abnormal Innovate: Summer Update on July 17 to explore the future of AI-powered email security with bite-sized sessions, expert insights, and exclusive product reveals.

Inside Abnormal Innovate: A Summit Built for Security Leaders

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Explore 10 key questions to evaluate cloud email security solutions and uncover how AI-native behavioral intelligence can stop today’s most advanced email threats.

10 Questions to Evaluate Cloud Email Security Solutions

Graymail

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Email overload is draining focus, frustrating employees, and distracting from real threats. See how Abnormal restores productivity by removing graymail at scale.

Reclaim the Inbox: The AI-Powered Cure for Graymail Overload

Business Email Compromise

B-Trust Trap Social Engineering Blog

The psychology of the modern work environment has become a roadmap for attackers—and a blind spot for traditional email security.

The Trust Trap: How Abnormal Stops Social Engineering at Work

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Ryan Devendorf

A previously undocumented phishing platform is targeting CEOs and CFOs by name, exploiting live Microsoft authentication to establish persistent access.

Meet VENOM: The PhaaS Platform That Neutralizes MFA

Product

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Learn how Abnormal's behavioral model uses signals, recency, and context—not just clicks—to deliver a more accurate and actionable phishing risk score.

An Abnormal Theory on Human Risk: The Formula Behind Abnormal’s Phishing Risk Score

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Attune 1.0 transforms detection with a unified behavioral intelligence architecture built for an AI-driven threat landscape.

Unveiling Attune: Modern Email Security Meets Behavioral Intelligence

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See how attackers weaponized a legitimate vendor's Microsoft 365 account to deliver a French-language VEC attack that cleared every standard authentication check.

French-Language VEC Attack Exploits Compromised Vendor Account and Cloudflare-Hosted Portal

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