Rspamd: Open-source spam filtering system
Rspamd is an open-source spam filtering and email processing framework designed to evaluate messages based on a wide range of rules, including regular expressions, statistical …
Fraud tactics and the growing prevalence of AI scams
In the first six months of 2024, Hiya flagged nearly 20 billion calls as suspected spam – more than 107 million spam calls everyday. The data showed spam flag rates of more …
AI-fueled phishing scams raise alarm ahead of U.S. presidential election
Highlighting growth of phishing and digital scams targeting United States citizens, Bolster released a research that identified 24 separate nation-state threat actor groups …
Attackers abuse OAuth apps to initiate large-scale cryptomining and spam campaigns
Attackers are compromising high-privilege Microsoft accounts and abusing OAuth applications to launch a variety of financially-motivated attacks. Abusing OAuth applications …
Microsoft 365 email senders urged to implement SPF, DKIM and DMARC
In the wake of Google’s announcement of new rules for bulk senders, Microsoft is urging Microsoft 365 email senders to implement SPF, DKIM and DMARC email authentication …
Google unveils stricter anti-spam rules for bulk email senders
To keep Gmail users’ inboxes “safer and more spam-free”, Google is introducing new requirements for bulk senders (of commercial email). “Last year we …
Cybercriminals masquerading as MFA vendors
Cybercriminals are increasingly posing as multi-factor authentication vendors and small businesses are becoming more popular targets, according to VIPRE. Attachment-based …
Bad bots are coming for APIs
In 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year, according to Imperva. The proportion of human traffic (52.6%) decreased to its …
Flood of malicious packages results in NPM registry DoS
Attackers are exploiting the good reputation and “openness” of the popular public JavaScript software registry NPM to deliver malware and scams, but are also …
How ChatGPT is changing the cybersecurity game
The cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3 potential as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers, according to Sophos. The latest report details projects developed by Sophos …
Fraud trends and scam tactics consumers should be aware of
If it seems like you’re receiving more spam than normal, you probably are. Seventy-four percent of consumers say they have received a scam text so far this year, while as many …
Summer holiday season fuels upswing of travel-themed spam
With Covid-19-related travel restrictions having been dropped by most countries, pleasure-seeking travelers are booking plane tickets, accomodations and tours with a …
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