Barracuda Networks has announced the launch of Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – a comprehensive, cost-effective solution to safeguard Microsoft Entra ID environments from accidental and malicious data loss. With fast, reliable recovery of vital identity data, the new offering strengthens cyber resilience and helps ensure secure, uninterrupted access to business applicationsRead More…

Email scammers are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create and launch mass spam campaigns rather than advanced targeted attacks, according to new research by the Universities of Columbia and Chicago, leveraging Barracuda’s threat detection data. The findings show that 51% of spam messages are now generated by AI, comparedRead More…

Barracuda Networks has unveiled powerful next-generation threat detection capabilities fueled by multimodal AI. Barracuda now uniquely delivers adaptive, context-aware protection against emerging attacks with unprecedented accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types – including URLs, documents, images, QR codes, and more. The newRead More…

Barracuda Networks has announced the appointment of Ketan Tailor as Chief Customer Officer. With more than 20 years of leadership experience, Tailor joins Barracuda at a pivotal time as it elevates customer experience initiatives amidst accelerating growth of its cybersecurity platform. “Ketan is a dynamic and visionary leader with a provenRead More…

In the first two months of 2025, Barracuda detection systems blocked over a million phishing attacks by prominent Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms. A new report on the tools and techniques used in the attacks highlights how PhaaS platforms are evolving rapidly to become more dangerous and evasive. Many target users ofRead More…

According to Barracuda’s latest annual review of XDR detection and incident data, ransomware threats increased fourfold during 2024, likely driven by prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) activity. Email threats that made it through to user inboxesRead More…

Barracuda threat analysts have identified a new generation of QR code phishing attacks featuring techniques designed to evade traditional security defenses. The techniques are outlined in new research and include QR codes built from text-based ASCII/Unicode characters rather than the standard static image, and the use of ‘Blob’ universal resource identifiers (URIs) to createRead More…

Barracuda Networks has today published the CIO report: Leading your business through cyber risk, which explores the top governance challenges facing companies trying to manage cyber risk and boost their cyber resilience. The report offers practical tools such as a checklist template, created with Barracuda’s own IT and security leadership, to helpRead More…