Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) meldete Mitte Januar dieses Jahrs eine erneute, massenhafte Versendung der Schadsoftware Emotet – über dessen Steuermodule verschiedene Arten von Malware nachgeladen werden können. Häufig sind dies Bankingtrojaner wie etwa Trickbot oder die Ransomware Ryuk.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a technology has been around for a long time. It inspects images for text and then decodes them. While the human eye is fantastic at recognizing text, be it upside down or at an angle, it is computationally intensive to do this by machine on a regular basis. However, new algorithms now exist to deal with skew (angled text) as well as being able to handle multiple languages. The latest versions of Clearswift’s email product portfolio – the SECURE Email Gateway (SEG), SECURE Exchange Gateway (SXG) and ARgon – have a new cost option for OCR to mitigate this risk.