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.
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.
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.
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.
Keeping up with the cybersecurity world has become a need more than a necessity because of the new threats emerging every day. Not to worry! Our weekly cybersecurity news thins the herd so you can focus on what’s important and stay safe.
What is your first instinct when you receive an email with a link embedded in it? To click on it, right? Well, what if we told you that clicking on unsolicited links might do you more harm than good? As tempting as it is to click on the “Get flat 80% off” link, doing so is like opening a can of worms.
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