Phishing is an umbrella term for several kinds of tricks and scams attempted online. For example, there’s ‘credential phishing,’ which is when threat actors steal your passwords or login information. Then, there’s ‘spear phishing,’ which is more targeted and personalized. They might use information about you to make their scams seem more believable. Another type is ‘vishing,’ which involves phone calls instead of emails, where they try to get personal information from you over the phone.
Another Instance of Nissan Data Breach: 100K People Affected Across New Zealand and Australia
by Duocircle
Nissan, the Japanese car manufacturing company, experienced a mind-boggling ransomware attack on December 5, 2024, resulting in a complete frenzy across Australia and New Zealand. This is not the first time that Nissan has come under the radar of cybercriminals. Earlier, this automobile company faced attacks such as proof of concept exploitation, source code leak issues, and data breach cases. Apparently, the notorious Akira ransomware gang is the mastermind behind this cyber scam. They have claimed to have scraped a whopping 100GB of data.
Best Practices to Follow When Implementing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
by Duocircle
We are in 2024, and it’s officially the era of email authentication, especially after Google and Yahoo made it mandatory for organizations to protect their email ecosystem with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Now that email authentication has become the new norm; enterprises have no other choice but to level up their cybersecurity game by implementing robust email authentication protocols.
Here we are again with the latest inside scoop on the cybersecurity highlights of the week. We’ll share details of the data leak in France’s job-seeking portal, the latest advancements of PixPirate Android malware, the fake “Leather” wallet crypto drainer application on the App Store, the Russian attack on Microsoft, and the arrest of a former Google employee who stole cutting-edge AI tech from the organization. Stay tuned!
DMARC isn’t a new regime; however, regulations and email service providers have now made it mandatory. This exercise is meant to reduce phishing and spoofing by filtering genuine and fraudulent emails. DMARC works in accordance with SPF and DKIM to instruct recipients’ servers to either reject or mark illegitimate emails as spam, reducing the likelihood of victims engaging with such emails and getting manipulated.
Clop Ransomware: Overview, Working Style, and Preventive Measures
by Duocircle
Clop Ransomware was first discovered by Michael Gillespie in 2019. It’s a developing family of ransomware that encrypts all data in a company’s digital ecosystem, and hackers demand money to decrypt and give back access. The malware is packed covertly and smartly to hide its inner workings.
If you have a website’s IP address and don’t know its domain name, you would need to perform a PTR lookup. A PTR record, which is short for a Pointer Record, is the opposite of an A record; an A record translates domain names into their corresponding IP addresses, and a PTR record translates IP addresses into their corresponding domain names.
Internet Crime Costs U.S. $12.5B, WordPress Breach Exploits, Cybercriminals Impersonate Government - Cybersecurity News [March 04, 2024]
by Duocircle
We’re back with the latest cybersecurity news that will keep you a step ahead of cybercriminals and their new tactics. This week, we’ll examine the findings of the 2023 Internet Crime Report, the new WordPress brute force password attacks, BEC attacks with threat actors impersonating the U.S. Government, the new WogRAT Malware, and how Germany’s Düsseldorf Police took down the country’s largest cybercriminal portal.
How does Microsoft 365 Manage Inbound Email Messages that Don’t Pass the DMARC Checks?
by Duocircle
Microsoft refrains from rejecting emails that don’t pass the DMARC checks even if the sending domain’s DMARC policy is set to ‘p=reject.’ This is because it is considerate of the legitimate emails that get false positives. So, to avoid disrupting genuine conversations, Microsoft takes a different route.
Don’t we all love it when tasks become easier for us? And by saying ‘all’ we unfortunately have to include cybercriminals as well. What we are talking about today is cybercrime-as-a-service or CaaS– a model that has democratized cybercrime by allowing even budding malicious actors to wreak havoc with just a rudimentary understanding of cyber menaces, access to the internet, and some money.
Microsoft’s 000 Reason for Email Failure With DMARC
by Duocircle
If you notice outgoing emails going to spam folders of only Outlook recipients and reflecting a ‘000’ reason, then it means your messages failed DMARC with ‘quarantine’ or ‘reject’ effects. You are likely to see the following snippet from the headers of email messages getting dumped in the spam folders-
SPF and DKIM collectively prevent you from email spoofing and phishing while also ensuring nobody tampers with messages in transit. To get started with them, domain administrators have to create their respective records and add them to their domain’s DNS.
From Joomla’s new vulnerabilities to the latest banking trojan campaigns on Google Cloud Run and OpenAI keeping state-sponsored threat actors from using its ChatGPT tool, here are the top scoops of the week in the cybersecurity world. Stay tuned to learn more about these and how to keep yourself safe from these new threats.
Learning to Set Up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC For Klaviyo
by Duocircle
As of June 30, 2023, Klaviyo has assembled over 6.9 billion consumer profiles across its customer base, placing it as one of the most used platforms for marketing automation for email marketing, SMS, and CDP. Taking these growth factors into consideration, we are sharing the email authentication guide for Klaviyo users so that they stay abreast of phishing and spoofing attackers.
Want to stay a step ahead of the recent threats in cybersecurity? We’re here with our weekly cybersecurity news piece that will help you out. This week, we’ll be covering new Android and iOS malware, malicious use of Ubuntu features, the new Facebook marketplace data breach, the data compromise of Bank of America, and the PlayDapp Gaming platform breach. Check these out to learn how to stay protected.
8 Cybersecurity Trends that Will Redefine the Digital Landscape in 2024
by Duocircle
To say 2023 saw a surge in cybersecurity attacks would be an understatement. From grave phishing attacks to sophisticated ransomware campaigns, the digital landscape of 2023 was plagued by complex security challenges.
Hyundai Europe Cyberattack, US Offers Bounty, Google’s Redesigned Interfaces – Cybersecurity News [February 05, 2024]
by Duocicle
From ransomware attacks on Hyundai Motor Europe to the US cracking down on spyware and denying visas, it’s been a busy week in tech news. Here we are with the latest scoops in cybersecurity, sharing details of the above, along with the Chinese cyber attack on Dutch military networks, the US offering rewards for information on the Hive ransomware gang, and Google teasing a new sign-in page. Let’s get into them.
FTC Boosts Blackbaud, Teams DarkGate Spreads, FBI Disrupts Chinese Botnet – Cybersecurity News [January 29, 2024]
by Duocircle
We’re back with the latest cybersecurity news of the week to deliver a concise overview of all the new threats and attacks you need to stay safe from. We’ll take a look at the FTC’s mandate on Blackbaud, the disruption of the Chinese botnet by the FBI, the new phishing attacks on Microsoft Team chats, USB malware that turns your devices into crypto miners, and the ransomware attack on Kansas City area transportation. Let us get into it.
Learning to Trace Back Emails to Their Source IP Addresses
by Duocirccle
Tracing back emails to their source IP addresses helps identify scams, spam, phishing, and spoofing emails by linking you back to fraudulent senders. The drill includes examining the email header containing routing details and email metadata.
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