What’s your industry’s email fraud protection rate?

Valimail regularly queries many millions of domains for the presence of published DMARC and SPF records, and performs detailed analysis on any records that we find. For our recent 

U.S. senators remain vulnerable to email fraud

Trend Micro has found evidence that a Russian hacking group is attempting to break into the U.S. Senate’s email systems, Newsweek reported last week. Here’s the thing: Hackers don’t even need to hack into the Senate in order to spread confusion and doubt. They can craft emails that look exactly like Senate emails, right down […]

5 takeaways from an Amazon phish

Today, we saw a phish posted by Lance Spitzner, a board member of the National Cyber Security Alliance. This phishing email was interesting, as Lance noted, because there was no attachment and it contained no malicious links. It looked like a perfectly legitimate email from Amazon, and every domain used in the message body and […]

One of Europe’s biggest companies just lost $45M in a business email scam

Leoni AG, a billion-dollar (market cap) manufacturer of cables and cable harnesses for car manufacturers, announced last month that it had fallen victim to a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The cost? 40 million Euros, or about $45 million. Leoni announced the fraud on August 16, a few days after it had happened. Upon hearing the news, the […]