Nearly 80% of websites have no DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) policy in place, increasing the odds that their domain will be spoofed and used for phishing attacks on customers, a report titled Global DMARC Adoption 2019 by 250ok, an Indianapolis-based email intelligence platform, released today, said. DMARC isRead More…

Researchers have spotted a variant of the Dridex banking trojan with stronger capabilities that help it skirt anti-virus detection. While Dridex has been around since 2011, researchers have said that they recently spotted phishing emails distributing a never-before-seen variant of the malware. This variant uses file signatures that are difficultRead More…

Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, today announced the availability of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report of tests that measure the efficacy of widely used email security systems. The report shows the need for the entire industry to continue to work towardRead More…

GoDaddy and security firm Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have taken down 15,000 subdomains dedicated to selling fake pharmaceutical products. Their two-year investigation led to them to some major cyber spam attacks on which these companies thrive. To begin with, they discovered that affiliate spammers had compromised the accounts ofRead More…

The global cyber security landscape hasn’t matured because of lack of capabilities and awareness of the ramifications of cyber threats, says Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, SANS Institute, the number 1 cyber security training company in the world. SANS Institute is also the most trusted resource globally, for cyber security certificationsRead More…

Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 482 million attempts to visit fraudulent web pages during 2018, a two-fold increase on 2017, when 236 million such attempts were blocked. Annual rises in the number of phishing attacks have been observed for the last few years,Read More…