NSA, FBI Alert on N. Korean Hackers Spoofing Emails from Trusted Sources

The U.S. government on Thursday published a new cybersecurity advisory warning of North Korean threat actors' attempts to send emails in a manner that makes them appear like they are from legitimate and trusted parties. The joint bulletin was published by the National Security Agency NSA, the...

Mozilla: Potential Spoofing Risk through Firefox Private Relay Service

A potential spoofing risk was identified in the Firefox Private Relay service. Adversaries were able to send spoofing emails to users by leveraging the service. The design of the service allowed these spoofing emails to bypass security measures and reach the target inbox. This was due to the...

Airline DMARC Policies Lag, Opening Flyers to Email Fraud

More than half of global airlines do not have DMARC policies in place, opening their customers up to email fraud attacks, a new report found. DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance is considered the industry standard for email authentication to prevent attackers from...

First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Uncovered

Researchers say they have discovered the first-ever reported Russian business email compromise BEC cybercriminal ring, showing that sophisticated attackers beyond the usual Nigerian scammers are setting their sights on the email-based attack vector. The BEC gang is called Cosmic Lynx, and has bee...