Sometimes, even illegitimate emails pass the DMARC check, and that’s because of the lack of enforcement controls by the domain owners. This is one of the primary cybersecurity vulnerabilities that allow cybercriminals to fool people through phishing emails. In October 2022, phishing attacks targeted nearly 600 brand names globally. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo emerged as…
Year after year, cyberattacks become more rampant and aggressive, and 2023 was no different. You’d be surprised to know that last year, the global average cost of a data breach was USD 4.45 million, which was a whopping 15% increase over 3 years. As a business owner, you would agree with us when we say…
Nobody drafts an email intending to have it land in the spam or junk folder of the recipient, but when it happens, your communication gets hampered. You either fail to communicate a message or don’t get a response unless the recipient happens to check their spam folder. Mailboxes place suspicious emails in spam folders to…
As of January 16, 2023, the United States led globally in the daily volume of spam emails sent, totaling approximately 8 billion. Czechia and the Netherlands followed closely, ranking second and third with 7.7 billion and 7.6 billion spam emails, respectively. To combat such uncontrollable numbers of phishing and spamming instances, Google and Yahoo rolled…
There’s no doubt that phishing attempts are getting more sophisticated every day, but so is the email authentication infrastructure. In 2021, Kaspersky detected 469 different kinds of ‘phishing kits’ and blocked 1.2 million phishing pages. BIMI is another tool to help protect against phishing attacks. BIMI, or Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is a feather…
