Comprehensive guides on protecting email accounts and infrastructure from cyber threats. Covers email authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, encryption best practices, spam filtering, and organizational policies that reduce the risk of email-based attacks.
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A Single Email Cost This Company $47 Million In 2015, Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that threat actors impersonating company executives tricked employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts. The attackers never breached a firewall. They never deployed malware. They sent emails — and those emails were enough. That's
The FakeEmail That Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, the FBI's IC3 reported that business email compromise — the art of sending a convincing fakeemail that impersonates a trusted sender — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses. That's not a typo. One European company
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. Yet when I ask executives to give me a phishing definition, most of them still say something like "those fake emails from
A Single Email Cost This Company $47 Million In 2015, Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that threat actors impersonating senior executives tricked finance employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts controlled by attackers. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a convincing email that looked like it came from the CEO.
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Behind nearly every one of those complaints was a single moment: someone clicked a link they shouldn't have. If you&
In 2023, a single phishing email gave attackers access to MGM Resorts' entire IT infrastructure. The result: over $100 million in losses, days of operational chaos, and a security wake-up call that echoed across every industry. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy sophisticated malware.
The Phishing Email That Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong joined a video call with people who looked and sounded exactly like the company's CFO and other executives. Every face on that call was a deepfake. The
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime category for the fifth consecutive year. Yet most of the phishing prevention tips circulating online read like they were written in 2009. "Don't click suspicious
160 Billion Reasons to Care About Spam Email Roughly 160 billion spam emails hit inboxes every single day. That's not a typo. According to data tracked by cybersecurity researchers, nearly half of all email traffic worldwide is spam. And while most of it is garden-variety junk — fake diet
A Phone Call That Looked Like Google — But Wasn't In late 2024, a Gmail user received a phone call from what appeared to be a legitimate Google support number. The caller warned of suspicious account activity, then followed up with an email — sent from what looked like a
