Constantly working to save Google and its users from serious threats, the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) continues to publish analyses on various evolving threats like commercial surveillance vendors, serious criminal operators, and government-backed attackers. Continuing the legacy, they recently shared intelligence on a new segment of attackers called hack-for-hire. Such hackers focus on compromising victims’ accounts and extracting data as a service. Read on to know more about this group.
Spam filters are a great way to protect yourself from unwanted emails (or phone calls in the case of robocalls). But what exactly makes a spam filter work?
Spam filters identify unsolicited, unsolicited, and virus-infected email (known as spam) and prevent it from getting into email addresses. Internet-service providers (ISPs) and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) use spam filters to make sure that they aren’t distributing it.
Both incoming and outgoing email are sent to the filtering process. Spam filters are utilised by ISPs to protect users. Small businesses typically target inbound filters.
One of the more popular and controversial email marketing techniques these days is DKIM. While it’s not entirely a new method, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is quickly gaining in popularity and may be becoming more necessary in the digital age. DKIM is an email authentication tool that verifies the authenticity of an email. It works by sending DKIM information from an email to a server, which checks that information against public DKIM records before it accepts the message.
This article provides an overview of the joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) on the Maui ransomware, which has been used by North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors to attack Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations.
With API security, you’re not just securing your data but the strength of the infrastructure as well. When hackers exploit the vulnerabilities in the API and gain access to the entire network, they engage in privilege escalation and employ different kinds of attacks and compromise the most sensitive data. This could lead to huge revenue losses and long-term damage to the firm’s reputation, all of which has a better probability of being avoided with due efforts made in API security.
In a world interconnected through a web of digital networks, every node or system in the network is assigned an address, called the IP address. The IP addresses are used to identify and distinguish nodes in the network. Additionally, these addresses are used as reference points by security experts to trace any malicious activities or for maintenance purposes. The IP addresses are graded through a measure called IP Reputation. The IP reputation score is a factor that decides how communication email security tools such as treat an email from a particular IP address.
Those days are behind us when merely adopting traditional cybersecurity tools such as local anti-virus software used to be enough to identify and alert against possible cyber threats. Instead, it’s the era of availing services from third-party vendors, and this means any cyber risk to the vendor might be a security concern for the clientele. Among other interesting cyber news this week, here’s what the Reserve Bank of New Zealand found about its recent cyber breach.
