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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Last month, a finance manager at a mid-sized logistics company received what looked like a routine DocuSign envelope — a payment authorization supposedly routed through PayPal. She clicked, entered her PayPal credentials on a pixel-perfect fake login page, and within 90 minutes, the attacker had initiated $38,000 in wire transfers.
In May 2021, a single phishing attack against Colonial Pipeline's legacy VPN account triggered the largest fuel supply disruption in U.S. history. One compromised credential. No multi-factor authentication. Five days of chaos across the Eastern Seaboard. That's what a phishing attack looks like when it
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported $4.2 billion in losses from cybercrime in 2020 — and phishing scams were the number one reported attack type, with 241,342 complaints. That's not a typo. Nearly a quarter of a million people filed formal complaints about phishing
In December 2020, the world learned that SolarWinds — a company whose software sat inside thousands of government and corporate networks — had been compromised by a sophisticated nation-state threat actor. The initial intrusion vector? Targeted, carefully crafted communications designed to exploit trust. If you're asking what is spear phishing,
In March 2021, a single phishing email led to the compromise of over 30,000 U.S. organizations through the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities. The attackers didn't need a sophisticated zero-day to get their initial foothold — they needed someone to click. If you're trying to define
A Pipeline Went Dark — Because One Person Clicked On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the United States — shut down operations after a ransomware attack. The disruption caused fuel shortages across the southeastern U.S. and triggered panic buying. While the full forensic details are still
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2019, a Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to stealing over $100 million from Google and Facebook using nothing more than phishing emails. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, sent fake invoices, and both tech giants paid up — for years.
In 2020, Twitter lost control of 130 high-profile accounts — including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple — because a 17-year-old used spear phishing to trick a handful of Twitter employees into handing over internal credentials. The attackers didn't blast a million inboxes with a generic "Your account has
In December 2020, the Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce confirmed they'd been breached through a supply chain attack that started, in part, with carefully crafted phishing emails targeting key personnel. If federal agencies with dedicated security teams can get caught, your organization isn't immune
In 2020, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 19,369 business email compromise complaints. The adjusted losses? A staggering $1.8 billion — making BEC the single most financially devastating cybercrime category in the FBI IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report. That's more than ransomware, more than
