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Eyal Benishti

As Chief Executive Officer at IRONSCALES, Eyal Benishti pioneered the development of the world’s first self-learning anti-phishing email security solution that combines human intelligence and machine learning technologies for automatic prevention, detection and autonomous incident response to cyber-attacks in real time. Under Eyal’s leadership, IRONSCALES has filed four patents for anti-phishing and email security solutions and secured three funding rounds from K1 and Israel’s RDSeed totaling more than $20 million. IRONSCALES has received numerous awards, including Frost & Sullivan’s AI-Powered Email Security Innovation Award and Best Enterprise Email Security Solution by the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards.

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The “Spammification” of Business Email Compromise Spells Trouble for Businesses Around the Globe

Eyal Benishti | June 14, 2024 | email, GenAI, Phishing, spamming

Whether it be purely text-based social engineering, or advanced, image-based attacks, one thing's for certain — generative AI is fueling a whole new age of advanced phishing ... Read More

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Defending Against Known, Unknown & Unknown-Unknown Email Scams

Eyal Benishti | May 3, 2023 | account takeover, bec, Cybersecurity, email security, Phishing,

Phishing scams pose a significant risk to companies and can lead to great loss in the form of stolen account credentials, fraudulent payments and corporate data breaches, among others. According to IBM’s Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, phishing remains the most common way for cybercriminals to gain access to a ... Read More

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How to Protect Your Organization From Account Takeovers

Eyal Benishti | December 8, 2022 | Account Takeover Attacks, business email compromise, data theft, Phishing, Ransomware, stolen credentials

The year 2021 was a big one for account takeover (ATO) attacks. According to a Javelin strategy and research study, losses from account takeovers increased by 90% in 2021 to $11.4 billion. Typically, the damage comes not so much from the account takeover itself, but from business email compromise (BEC), ... Read More

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Business Email Compromise: Low-Tech, High-Impact Threat

Eyal Benishti | November 7, 2022 | bec, business email compromise, cyberattacks, Phishing

One of the least technologically sophisticated cyberattacks, business email compromise (BEC), is also one of the most damaging. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there were 241,206 business email compromise incidents between 2016 and 2021, with combined global business losses of $43,312,749,946. In its 2021 internet crime ... Read More

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New Dog, Old Tricks: Reducing Cryptocurrency Phishing Vulnerabilities

Eyal Benishti | May 4, 2022 | #vulnerabilitymanagement, cryptocurrency, hacks, Phishing, vulnerability

For the security-minded, the rise of cryptocurrencies has been both a blessing and a curse. Coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum theoretically offer a higher degree of protection and privacy than traditional banking, especially in an online world where banking websites share much of our sensitive financial information with untold numbers ... Read More

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