The past year has seen a remarkable laundry list of email-based attacks. Phishing, spear-phishing, whaling, business email compromise (BEC), CEO to CFO scamming, email impersonation — whatever names you attach to this bewildering variety of attacks, it’s clear that hackers are using the full range of email techniques available to them. Citizen Lab calls phishing “the royal road to account compromise,” and with good reason. It’s cheap, scalable, effective, and — for now — most companies have erected few technical barriers to phishing.

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