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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That Gmail Alert Isn't Always What It Seems In September 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that threat actors were increasingly spoofing legitimate security alerts to steal credentials. One of the most common lures? A fake Gmail account access warning that looks virtually
In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Business Email Compromise — attacks built on a single convincing fake email — caused $2.4 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. That made it the most financially devastating cybercrime category in the entire FBI IC3 annual report.
Twilio, a company with a sophisticated security team and a tech-savvy workforce, got phished in August 2022. Attackers sent SMS messages to employees pretending to be the IT department, directing them to a fake login page. The result: compromised credentials, unauthorized access to customer data, and a breach that rippled
In March 2022, the hacking group Lapsus$ breached Okta by phishing a single contractor's credentials. That one successful social engineering attack gave threat actors access to systems used by thousands of companies worldwide. If you're searching for the definition of a phishing attack, that incident is
In March 2022, the FBI warned that business email compromise schemes — many of which rely heavily on spoofing — had caused over $43 billion in global losses since 2016. That's not a typo. Forty-three billion. And the most unsettling part? The attacks didn't require elite hacking skills.
In March 2022, the threat actor group Lapsus$ breached Okta by spear phishing a single support engineer at a third-party contractor. That one compromised account gave the attackers a foothold that ultimately affected roughly 366 Okta customers. Not a mass email blast. Not a Nigerian prince scam. One carefully researched,
The FBI Warns Gmail Users of Sophisticated AI-Driven Phishing Attacks — And Most People Aren't Ready Earlier this year, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that phishing schemes — including business email compromise — accounted for over $2.7 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. Now,
The FBI Is Warning Gmail Users — And Most People Aren't Listening In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report showing that phishing — including attacks targeting Gmail users specifically — generated more victim complaints than any other cybercrime category. Over 300,000
In March 2022, threat actors used a single phishing email to breach Okta through a third-party contractor's account. The fallout? Hundreds of downstream customers suddenly questioning whether their own environments were compromised. One email. One click. A cascading trust crisis that made headlines for weeks. That's
The Typo That Costs Billions: Why "Phising" Leads You to the Right Problem Here's something I find fascinating: "phising" is one of the most common misspellings in cybersecurity search queries. Thousands of people type it every day looking for information about phishing — the attack
