Google, Yahoo Boosting Email Spam Protections
Google and Yahoo are introducing new requirements for bulk senders, to improve phishing and spam protections.
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Unpatched Exim Vulnerabilities Expose Many Mail Servers to Attacks
Patches are being developed for serious Exim vulnerabilities that could expose many mail servers to attacks.
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Protecting against FraudGPT, ChatGPT’s evil twin
FraudGPT is the evil counterpart to ChatGPT. Criminals use it to target businesses with phishing emails and scams with speed and accuracy like never before. The AI can be prompted to create the most realistic phishing emails, perfected down to a busine…
Why more security doesn’t mean more effective compliance
Financial institutions have always been a valuable target for cyberattacks. That’s partly why banking and financial institutions are heavily regulated and have more compliance requirements than those in most other industries. A slew of new rules have b…
Email forwarding flaws enable attackers to impersonate high-profile domains
Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The issues researcher…
Emerging threat: AI-powered social engineering
Social engineering is a sophisticated form of manipulation but, thanks to AI advancements, malicious groups have gained access to highly sophisticated tools, suggesting that we might be facing more elaborate social engineering attacks in the future. It…
Spam is up, QR codes emerge as a significant threat vector
85% of phishing emails utilized malicious links in the content of the email, and spam emails increased by 30% from Q1 to Q2 2023, according to a VIPRE report. Information technology organizations also overtook financial institutions (9%) as the most ta…
Email Authentication Protocols: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC – A Detailed Guide
Email communication is essential for personal and professional contact in the modern digital environment. Email is widely used, making it a perfect target for cybercriminals, leading to increased phishing attempts, spam, and email spoofing. Strong emai…
Abnormal Security: Microsoft Tops List of Most-Impersonated Brands in Phishing Exploits
A new study found that 4.31% of phishing attacks mimicked Microsoft, far ahead of the second most-spoofed brand PayPal.
Cybercriminals turn to AI to bypass modern email security measures
Cybercriminals employ artificial intelligence (AI) to create complex email threats like phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, while modern email security systems use AI to counter these attacks, according to Perception Point and Osterma…