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A massive ad fraud campaign named "SubdoMailing" is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send up to five million emails per day to generate revenue through scams and malvertising. "The campaign is called"SubdoMailing, as the threat actors hijack abandoned subdomains and domains belonging to well-known companies to send their malicious emails.
In 2023, malicious email threats bypassing secure email gateways increased by more than 100%, according to Cofense. "As we unveil the statistics from the 2024 Annual State of Email Security Report, it's evident that the email-based attack vector is evolving at an unprecedented pace going into 2024," said David Van Allen, CEO of Cofense.
All company communication needs may vary but certain standard template messages can come in handy for IT staff to keep employees up to date on "Need to know" informational bulletins. A formal set of message templates will allow you to deliver both event-based and proactive communications, which ensures that everyone is up to speed on critical developments, projects and company policies.
A former council staff member in the district where William Shakespeare was born ransacked databases filled with residents' information to help drum up new business for their outside venture. The UK's Stratford-on-Avon District Council concluded its investigation into a November data breach last week, finding tens of thousands of email addresses stolen from a garden and waste collection database.
Analysis of 7 billion emails shows clean links are duping users, malicious EML attachments increased 10-fold in Q4, and social engineering attacks are at all-time highs, according to VIPRE Security. Often protected by nothing more than human nature and an antivirus, cybercriminals continue to use email to launch their most basic and persistent attacks.
According to a report from Abnormal Security, generative AI is likely behind the significant uptick in the volume and sophistication of email attacks on organizations, with 80% of security leaders stating that their organizations have already fallen victims to AI-generated email attacks. Even though humans are still better at crafting effective phishing emails, AI is still immensely helpful to cyber crooks: even less-skilled hackers can use it to easily craft credible and customized emails, with no grammar and spelling mistakes, nonsensical requests, etc.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Roundcube email software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)...
CISA warns that a Roundcube email server vulnerability patched in September is now actively exploited in cross-site scripting attacks. The security flaw is a persistent cross-site scripting bug that lets attackers access restricted information via plain/text messages maliciously crafted links in low-complexity attacks requiring user interaction.
Singapore-based infosec firm Group-IB has detected a group that spent the last two months of 2023 stealing personal info from websites operated by jobs boards and retailers websites across Asia. The actors, dubbed "ResumeLooters" by Group-IB, used SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting attacks to steal databases from the sites.
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing desktop and mobile email clients to fail to connect when using Outlook.com accounts. "For Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, if you are still seeing authentication prompts, please ensure you've enabled two step verification and create an app password. Use the app password in place of your normal password when Outlook prompts for authentication."