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Every day, cybercriminals register thousands of SSL certificates for domains designed to impersonate legitimate brands. These fraudulent certificates create the illusion of security, displaying the reassuring padlock icon while users unknowingly surrender credentials to sophisticated phishing operations. Certificate transparency logs offer organizations a critical advantage: detecting brand impersonation attempts the moment attackers obtain SSL certificates,…

Malvertising has evolved from banner‑ad nuisances into precision scams that drain budgets, steal credentials, and drop malware at scale. Attackers now hijack ad platforms, impersonate brands in search, and weaponize redirect chains to bypass filters. In 2024–2025, researchers documented sustained growth in malvertising and search‑ad scams, with campaigns targeting both consumers and advertisers. 🔍 Authoritative…

Phishing websites have grown more sophisticated, making detection harder than ever. One of the stealthiest tactics now in use is user agent cloaking, where websites present different content depending on who — or what — is visiting. If a security scanner or crawler loads the page, it sees a harmless blank site or a redirect…

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…