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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
“Unable to send email to Gmail: This message does not pass authentication checks (SPF and DKIM both 550-5.7.26 do not pass).”
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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.
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. From there, use WHOIS and IP reputation tools; if the address maps to a commercial VPN server location, treat attribution with caution.
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New threats keep emerging, but we’re here with the latest in cybersecurity to help your organization and employees stay safe. This week, we’ve seen a range of new malware attacks and phishing campaigns. From Blackwood’s new malware targeting organizations around the world to iPhone applications collecting user data, the US SEC’s account being hacked, the new Facebook phishing campaign, and more; we’ll share everything about these.
The rua and ruf tags in a DMARC record allow domain owners to specify email addresses where they want to receive DMARC aggregate and forensic reports. You can choose to receive both types of DMARC reports on the same email address or different ones.
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We’re back with the latest in cybersecurity with our weekly cybersecurity bulletin. Join us for an inside scoop on TeamViewer being used by threat actors and the cyberattack on Kansas State University. But that’s not all; we’ll also take you through two novel phishing campaigns involving fake Norton antivirus subscriptions and PDF decryptor tools and everything Google shared about the Androxgh0st malware so you can take the necessary action and protect yourself. Let’s take a look.
In theory, implementing DMARC is as simple as publishing a DMARC record with your DNS. Well, only if things were this straightforward. As businesses expand and email ecosystems become more complex, it becomes challenging for security teams to prevent email-based attacks and ensure that no legitimate emails are marked as spam.
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Worried about keeping your data safe? We’re here with the latest in cybersecurity news covering FTC’s latest notice, the vulnerability that has affected 6700 WordPress websites, the outage of T-Mobile, and the latest SnappyTCP attacks by Sea Turtle that will help you keep safe from the latest cyber threats. Let’s get into it!
Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance or DMARC alignment verifies that an email message’s ‘From’ header domain aligns with the authenticated domain used in the DKIM and SPF protocols. There are two DMARC alignment modes: SPF identifier alignment and DKIM identifier alignment.