Phishing

Spoofing and phishing are very common forms of BEC that every business in 2020 is having to contend with and since 90% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email it’s simply not a matter of if, but when. …Continue Reading: What does DMARC do for BEC?

Researchers at Red Sift analysed the primary domains of the top 48 most romantic restaurants in London, as ranked by GQ Magazine, and found that only one had DMARC in place, though not at a level to fully protect customers from email fraud…Continue Reading: London’s romantic restaurants slacking on DMARC

Use OnDMARC’s Investigate tool for free to instantly verify if DKIM and SPF are correctly set up to ensure your business emails are authenticated…Continue Reading: Check your email security setup in 30 seconds

Once OnDMARC was in place, Greenhill uncovered 2,734 unauthorized email sources sending 671,000 fake emails from a parked domain; in the first 90 days, a million spoof emails were blocked; its SPF pass rate increased from 79.7% to 100%, specifically due to OnDMARC’s Dynamic SPF feature. …Continue Reading: OnDMARC Success Stories

Annnnd you’ve guessed it, none of the parties had their DMARC policies configured to quarantine, let alone reject. Only three of the parties – Liberal Democrats, Labour and SNP had a valid DMARC policy, but would still need to tighten configurations to direct impersonated emails using the @libdems.org.uk email domain for example, into the spam/junk folder…Continue Reading: Major UK political parties vulnerable to phishing

So given it’s early September, and the entire office is in a post-holiday coma, we thought we’d break the monotony of the perpetual cyber doom media cycle and distract you with a few of our favourite ludicrous scams and subsequent responses…Continue Reading: A comedy of email errors