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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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. But here's what the raw numbers don't tell you: every single one of those incidents started with a
In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $100 million from Google and Facebook using nothing more than a series of fake email messages. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, sent invoices from a lookalike domain, and two of the most technologically sophisticated companies on
Your Employees Are Hungry — And Threat Actors Are Cooking In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) logged over 298,000 phishing complaints — more than any other cybercrime category for the fifth year running. That's nearly 817 reported phishing attacks per day. And those are
A Single Email That Cost $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million after an employee followed wire transfer instructions in a fraudulent email. Facebook and Google collectively lost over $100 million to a Lithuanian threat actor who sent fake invoices posing as a hardware vendor. These aren&
The Typo That Costs Billions: Why "Phising" Lands You Here Here's something I find fascinating — "phising" is one of the most commonly misspelled cybersecurity terms on the internet. If you searched for it, you're in exactly the right place. Phishing (with the
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered their way past an IT help desk — with a single phone call. That one interaction led to a ransomware attack that shut down slot machines, hotel check-ins, and digital key cards across Las
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2015, Ubiquiti Networks disclosed that threat actors used carefully crafted emails — impersonating executives — to trick finance employees into wiring $46.7 million to overseas accounts. That wasn't a mass spam campaign. It was spear phishing: a surgical, researched, devastatingly
The CEO Who Wired $47 Million to a Criminal In 2016, Austrian aerospace manufacturer FACC lost €42 million (roughly $47 million) after threat actors spoofed the CEO's email and instructed a finance employee to wire funds for a fake acquisition. The employee believed the request was legitimate. The
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — the category that includes fakeemail schemes — caused over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses across roughly 21,489 complaints. That made it the single most financially damaging cybercrime category in the IC3's annual
In 2023, a single spear phishing email cost MGM Resorts an estimated $100 million in losses. The attacker didn't blast a million inboxes with a generic "Your account has been suspended" message. They researched an employee on LinkedIn, called the IT help desk impersonating that person,
