Domain owners use DMARC reports to instruct receiving mailboxes to quarantine or reject emails from unauthorized IP addresses. This helps minimize the possibility of victims engaging with potentially fraudulent emails sent on the pretext of official conversation from your company. However, Microsoft works a bit differently! Microsoft doesn’t reject emails because it considers the instances…
The last couple of years have seen a significant surge in the number of cybercrimes. Be it instances of extortion or ransomware, these fraudulent activities have resulted in huge financial losses across the globe. Both the corporate and the business world are facing cybercrime risks. Physical supply chains, health, and the IT sector are the…
Klaviyo is a popular marketing automation platform for e-commerce platforms that helps them plan email campaigns and analyze customer behavior for improved engagement and conversions. If you are one of its users, it’s important for you to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for email authenticity and deliverability. This exercise ensures that only authorized…
QR codes are seen everywhere for directing users to URLs with a tap; and just as every coin has two slides, these Quick Response codes are also being used negatively. In fact, in May 2023, a U.S.-based energy firm encountered nearly 29% of more than 1000 malicious emails containing QR codes. Adversaries are developing newer…
2023 was a testament to the relentless advancement of cyber threats, as we witnessed a wave of sophisticated attacks ranging from damaging phishing scams to complex ransomware operations. And to think that dealing with the wrath of these attacks would have been easy is a mistake! Keeping the business up and running, protecting sensitive information,…
Individual legal professionals and law firms are becoming one of the favorite targets for cybercriminals. The incidence of cyber attacks targeting UK law firms rose by 36% in the last year. Chaucer, a specialty reinsurance group, reported a total of 166 cyber breaches for the 2021/22 period. This figure surged to 226 for the 2022/23…
According to the How Businesses Hire Agencies Study by Semrush, nearly 94% of businesses outsource some or all of their marketing activities, including sending emails on their behalf. With such outsourcing comes the risk of opening up new gateways for malicious actors to access, intercept, and exploit your technical and non-technical resources. So, deploying SPF,…
Once you have created a DMARC record, the job is not over; the real work of monitoring begins after that. Domain owners or administrators have to assess XML reports to understand if someone is sending unauthorized emails from your domain. But what if you don’t receive these reports in the first place? You won’t get…
Have you ever received an email from a seemingly familiar sender only to realize that it was perhaps a fraudulent one, masquerading as a legitimate email? Well, this looks like a classic case of a phishing attack that involves deceitful communication designed to trick individuals into divulging sensitive information, such as login credentials, financial details,…
In an email-based interview between Forbes and Stefan Schiller, a vulnerability researcher at Sonar, the latter raised concerns about how AI-driven phishing attackers can create convincing and personalized emails, fooling victims into revealing confidential personal and financial details. Moreover, the 2023 State of Phishing Report by SlashNext unveils a staggering 1,265% surge in phishing emails…
