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Cybercriminals Posing as Lenders & Escrow Agents for Payment Fraud

March 22, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

There’s a lot of posing going on when it comes to cybercrime.

If you’ve spent this past workweek furiously trying to figure where I’d wind up for this installment of Tech Essentials (and hopefully win your office betting pool), you can now put your pencils down because I’ve arrived in Pisa, Italy.

RPost’s PRE-Crime Protection Stops Title Insurance Fraud Before it Happens

March 15, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

We’re on the cutting edge of detecting and obliterating fraudulent emails that could be the first step in a title insurance scheme.

This week, I’m visiting you from a nondescript vacant lot on the outskirts of Pasadena, California. “Armand,” you ask. “You’re a long way from Davos! You’re usually in such posh locations when you report to us for Tech Essentials.”

The Rise of Email Phishing Scams Using Generative AI

March 08, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Unfortunately, cybercriminals using generative AI are going to change the game of email phishing scams.

Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria! I’m here to meet up with a very wealthy prince who is generously willing to share in his vast fortune with me if I can just “do the needful” and give him some innocuous information about myself.

Win the Lukewarm War Against the Eavesdroppers Who May be Peering into Your Sensitive Emails

March 01, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

In today’s cybercrime vs cybersecurity theater, there is an element of cat and mouse going on. Now you can be the Cat! 

Armand here again—this time from Langley, VA, home of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Why am I hanging out near the HQ of the world’s foremost spy organization? To make a point about how cybercrime vs cybersecurity is very much a cat and mouse, spy vs. spy affair.

Sent a Sensitive Document to the Wrong Person via Email by Mistake? - Revoke Document Access

February 23, 2024 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

Mis-sent: navigating the quicksands of data leaks and compliance

“A sensitive email sent to a mistyped Gmail address is likely to land in some real person’s inbox. Get an email mis-send kill switch with RPost. Just switch it!”