Author: Cyber Analyst

The most common passwords 2024 list delivers a shocking verdict on corporate security: “secret” topped US rankings while “123456” dominated globally, contributing to an unprecedented 10 billion plaintext passwords leaked in the RockYou2024 breach alone. This catastrophic exposure affected 5.5 billion accounts, an eightfold increase from 2023, costing businesses $4.88 million per breach on average.…

Email authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are important building blocks in protecting email. They help prevent direct spoofing of your organization’s exact domain name, and they provide reporting insights into who is sending mail on your behalf. But in 2025, phishing remains the top reported cybercrime, and billions in losses are still attributed…

The Levenshtein distance algorithm calculates the minimum number of single-character edits needed to transform one string into another, making it a fundamental tool for detecting typosquatted domains like “gooogle.com” or “mircosoft.com.” While this mathematical approach developed by Vladimir Levenshtein in 1965 remains valuable, it represents just one module among SpoofGuard’s 35 different typosquatting generation techniques.…

The $16.6 Billion Connection Between Tariffs and Cybercrime The numbers tell a chilling story: within the first three months of 2025, cybersecurity firm BforeAI tracked 301 malicious domain registrations specifically targeting tariff confusion. This isn’t coincidence – it’s a calculated exploitation of economic uncertainty. As Trump’s tariffs reshape global trade, creating average household tax increases…

Supply chain attacks have evolved into one of the most dangerous threats facing modern software development. The recent hijacking of popular npm linter packages through sophisticated phishing campaigns demonstrates how attackers are targeting the very tools developers trust. When the maintainer of npm packages like eslint-config-prettier and eslint-plugin-prettier fell victim to targeted phishing, millions of…

Phishing as a service has transformed cybercrime from a technical challenge into a point-and-click business opportunity. For minimal cost, anyone with basic computer skills can now launch sophisticated phishing campaigns that bypass multi-factor authentication and harvest credentials at scale. The recent emergence of the Rockstar 2FA platform, which specifically targets Microsoft 365 accounts with adversary-in-the-middle…