DMARC reporting and monitoring is the practice of choosing to receive DMARC aggregate and forensic reports. These are detailed reports that include insights on email activities that businesses study to learn about false positives and domain exploitation instances. If evaluated adequately and regularly, you can prevent potential financial and reputational damages caused by phishing attacks…
In November 2022, the Google Workspace team saw a spike in phishing and spoofing emails targeted toward Gmail users. As a result, Google blocked almost 231 billion emails in just two weeks. That’s why experts suggest configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in Google Workspace, and this guide explains the steps for that. Setting Up…
A bug bounty is a program that allows ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities in a system or software, and they are rewarded for it. Usually, the reward is in the form of money, and sometimes it’s done in exchange for favors. As of 2020, the average bounty payout is the highest in the software industry,…
Cyber crimes have been taking place at an exponentially high rate in the past two decades. In 2022, Canada alone bore a loss of a whopping 2 billion US dollars because of cyber crimes. Cyber security experts have been trying hard to blend conventional as well as modern techniques to prevent threat actors from breaking…
Gmail has covertly introduced some updates based on the RETVec technology, which is short for Resilient & Efficient Text Vectorizer. It’s a next-gen text vectorizer that supports multiple languages and includes adversarial resilience by default. This machine learning-driven algorithm discovers spam techniques, keyword stuffing, insertion of glyphs, smart typos, etc, that threat actors use to…
The healthcare industry has become the center of focus for threat actors since 2022. In the past 12 months, the global healthcare sector has witnessed a whopping 60% increase in the number of cyberattacks. Multiple factors, like critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and IoMT, make this industry a popular target among cybercriminals. Healthcare centers are a…
Learning how to generate and add a DMARC record to DNS helps fortify phishing and spoofing attacks. DMARC is short for Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance, a protocol designed to help recipients’ mail servers identify genuine and suspicious emails. To add a dmarc record to DNS, you need to update your DNS settings with…
Since the fourth quarter of 2022, there has been a 1,265% increase in malicious phishing emails and a 967% rise in credential phishing. The expansion of ChatGPT and similar AI generative tools are contributing to this steep surge, and experts are anticipating the situation to worsen in the coming months. Although the message for the…
If you thought that simply deploying DMARC on your email ecosystem was sufficient to ensure comprehensive protection against spoofing and phishing attacks, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise! Unfortunately, DMARC isn’t a “deploy and done” authentication protocol. To steer malicious actors away from your domain and ensure that your email lands in the…
Now, ransom threats have taken the digital route as well! Cybercriminals attempt them using ransomware, which are basically malicious software and tools used to block access to a device or network of devices until the victim pays off the demanded amount. The global ransomware damage cost is anticipated to exceed $265 billion by 2031, and…
Phishing exists, and we all are well aware of it. However, we still end up getting trapped in the new tricks of scammers. These attacks surge specifically during the holiday seasons as people look for discounted gifts and household items. Threat actors create spoofed email addresses and websites to trap executives and attempt business email…
DMARC is not just about creating a record and defining DMARC policies. You have to gain insights into how it works and figure out if your record needs any advancements or demotions. This careful analysis is done by adding RUA and RUF tags to a record, followed by email addresses where you want to receive…
Pen testing or penetration testing is defined as an authorized and strategized simulated cyberattack performed to explore the vulnerabilities of a technical system. Sounds complicated? Here’s a simpler explanation- So, companies hire a penetration tester who breaks into their system just like a hacker would do. They try to take note of all the security…
The holiday season is here, but unfortunately, the malicious scam season is also right behind it. This is the time when cybercriminals are also geared up to trick people into buying things from cloned websites, participating in fake contests promising exciting gifts, purchasing lottery tickets, etc. Do you know what’s the latest? It’s the puppy…
So you have your email authenticated with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, yet your DMARC report shows discrepancies in the alignment? Chances are that your emails were being passed through an intermediary mail server before they were delivered. This is a classic case of email forwarding. But then why implement email forwarding if it can compromise…
Are you a small business owner strategizing ways to scale your business? In the pursuit of growth, there’s a high probability that you’re missing out on an important detail that could potentially jeopardize your success. The Achilles’ heel we’re referring to is cybersecurity! You’d be surprised to know that only 26% of small business professionals…
