The ‘Must Know’ DNS Record checkers to know your email domain security posture. Can you account for all the emails being sent from your organization’s email domain? Not knowing…
VEC Attacks : An Emerging Threat
For understanding the concept of VEC attacks (Vendor Email Compromise), it is important to first understand Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. So let’s start off by getting a general idea…
DMARC: A Prerequisite for Email Domain Security
Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an effective email validation system that protects your organization’s email domain from being misused to carry out malicious activities like email spoofing…
University Email Accounts Hijacking Drives Phishing and Malware Attacks
Cyber security researchers have recently found out that cybercriminals are committing email account hijacking from 13 different renowned universities. They are launching phishing and malware attacks by getting around DMARC…
Millions of Email Threats Have Hit UAE
Millions of Email Threats Have Hit UAE in H1 2020
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, various organizations in the UAE witnessed a staggering rise in the number of cyber attacks. In the first half of 2020 itself, the…
BEC Attacks Yielded the Most Profit for Cyber Criminals in 2020!
Today, BEC attacks have turned out to be the highest remunerative line of business for cyber threat actors. Reportedly, with the rising number of BEC attacks, new fraud gangs have…
Outbound Email Errors Lead to 93% Increase in Data Breaches
New normal of 2020 has increased the number of outbound email breaches all over the world. The recent 2020 Outbound Email Data Breach Report discussed the survey on 538 IT…
Only 20% of Fortune 500 Firms Employed DMARC in H1 of 2020!
The recent security findings have revealed that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have been vulnerable to email-based attacks. The reason being the slow adoption of DMARC in the H1 of…
Middle East Hit by a Wave of Phishing Attacks in Q2 of 2020
Almost every organization across the globe adopted work from home policy due to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Seeing the ongoing global crisis, cyber criminals leveraged the opportunity to…
Email-Borne Attacks Expected to Hit 60% of the Organizations in the UAE
Security researchers and experts in Dubai have recently expressed concerns regarding email-borne security attacks that are expected to hit 60% of the UAE corporate sector. A cybersecurity research survey conducted…