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.
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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-
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We’re back again with the latest in cybersecurity news this week! Join us for a detailed look into the Rhysida ransomware and the Hessen attack to get updates on how you can stay safe. We’ll also share news of the new IDAT loader targeting the Ukrainian Armed Forces, PayPal’s new patent for browser cookie security, and Apple’s latest PQ3 encryption for iMessages. Stay tuned.
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.