{"id":18821,"date":"2021-10-05T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/?p=18821"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:26:09","slug":"email-security-monthly-review-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/email-security-monthly-review-september-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Security Monthly Review &#8211; September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EasyDMARC&#8217;s Email Security Monthly Review contains a summary of the key events, news and developments regarding email security that took place across the world in September 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEC sanctions eight firms over cybersecurity failures<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eight US financial service firms have been sanctioned by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for cybersecurity failures. As a result of the firms\u2019 shortcomings, the corporate email accounts and personal data of thousands of people were compromised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the firms involved include KMS Financial Services, and subsidiaries of Cetera Financial Group and Cambridge Investment Group. All eight companies were fined hundreds of thousands of dollars each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2021-169\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">press release issued by the SEC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> states that all eight companies \u201cagreed to cease and desist from future violations of the charged provisions, to be censured and to pay a penalty\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security researchers discover Apple\u2019s hack by Israeli firm<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citizen Lab security researchers have uncovered an exploit believed to have been used by government clients of Israeli spyware company NSO Group. The researchers claim that the exploit has been used to hack into iPhones and other Apple devices since February this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple released a patch to fix the exploit soon after it was informed of the vulnerability. The security researchers have stated that Apple\u2019s haste to fix the issue highlights how serious their findings are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement to The Guardian, head of Apple security engineering and architecture Ivan Krsti\u0107, said: \u201cWe\u2019d like to commend Citizen Lab for successfully completing the very difficult work of obtaining a sample of this exploit so we could develop this fix quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EasyDMARC\u2019s domain scanner helps SMBs assess their <a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/4-email-security-best-practices-to-protect-your-organization-in-2021\/\">email security<\/a> risks<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For busy SMB owners and IT staff, checking and improving their email ecosystem can be hard at times, because of factors such as a lack of time or in-house competences to focus on these aspects. Yet, small and medium businesses are the targets of 56% of hacking incidents in the US. They are a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.einnews.com\/pr_news\/551833761\/for-busy-smb-owners-and-it-staff-easydmarc-provides-a-fast-solution-to-understanding-their-email-security-risks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prey of choice for hackers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who can leverage their lack of preparation, as 42% of SMBs owners don\u2019t have plans in place to respond to these attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help business owners understand quickly and easily how secure their email ecosystem is, <a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/solutions\">EasyDMARC proposes a solution<\/a> that anybody can use. In one click, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/tools\/domain-scanner\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EasyDMARC\u2019s domain scanner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delivers a report that audits their 4 principal email security protocols: DMARC, SPF, <a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/dkim-record-how-to-create-add-and-check-dkim-records\/\">DKIM<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/what-is-bimi-and-why-should-email-marketers-care-about-it\/\">BIMI<\/a>, along with guidance on how to improve them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, SMBs can start protecting themselves more actively from financial losses and data leakage. EasyDMARC\u2019s services can help them secure their systems, especially against business email compromise (BEC), which is by far the costliest form of cyber attack impacting businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New email security services launched by Cloudflare<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudflare has announced the addition of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/tackling-email-spoofing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two new email security features<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to its services. The internet infrastructure firm aims to build email security and verification technology into its range of services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first new feature is the addition of layers of email security to a domain, which creates records for <a href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/understanding-spf-sender-policy-framework-to-improve-email-delivery\/\">Sender Policy Framework (SPF)<\/a> and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The second feature allows for email addresses from corporate-branded inboxes to be routed to whatever email infrastructure a business uses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, commented: \u201cOur goal is to take features that were either expensive or reserved for large businesses and make them easy to use and make them available for a much larger audience.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Record-breaking number of zero-day exploits in 2021<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several databases, researchers and cybersecurity firms state that the record for the highest number of zero-day exploits a year was broken in 2021. Cybersecurity defenders have caught approximately 66 this year thus far, almost double the number of exploits that were caught last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rapid increase in the number of hacking tools available has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/09\/23\/1036140\/2021-record-zero-day-hacks-reasons\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cited as one of the major contributing factors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the rise in zero-day exploits.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airbus CyberSecurity and Alstom join forces<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airbus CyberSecurity and Alstom have signed a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">worldwide cooperation agreement, focusing on rail transport cyber-security. Under the agreement, the companies will collaborate to provide leading cybersecurity solutions covering industrial information systems across rail transport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alstom\u2019s expertise in rail transport, in addition to Airbus CyberSecurity\u2019s services in ensuring the security of industrial information systems will allow the pair to best serve rail operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicolas Razy, Director of Airbus CyberSecurity France, commented: \u201cAs specialist in the cyber-security of industrial systems, particularly in the transport sector, we are keen to contribute to securing the information systems of the rail sector along with Alstom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Africa\u2019s cybersecurity is falling behind, survey says<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to research by SurfShark\u2019s, South Africa\u2019s cybersecurity efforts lags behind other countries in Africa as well as globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SurfShark\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/surfshark.com\/research\/dql\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2021 Digital Quality of Life Index<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ranked South Africa 68 out of 110 countries overall. The country was placed 85th for electronic security and 95th for cybersecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Africa\u2019s poor electronic and cybersecurity performance is evident in the increase of high profile cyber breaches over the last couple of months, targeting the likes of Transnet and the Department of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major increase in vehicle cybersecurity hacks, says report<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upstream.auto\/2021report\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report from Upstream Security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that there were at least 150 automotive cybersecurity incidents in 2019. These figures represent a 94% year-on-year increase, as compared to figures from 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rise in these incidents is indicative of how common and dangerous vehicle hacks are, especially as a result of communication methods being built into new vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">106 hackers linked to Italian mafia arrested for scams<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europol recently announced that 106<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people suspected of online fraud linked to the Italian Mafia have been arrested. Those arrested are claimed to have scammed hundreds of victims through phishing, SIM swapping attacks and business email hacking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed that the hackers accessed and stole a total of $11.7m from their scams.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several popstars file claims over phone hacking incidents<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of popstars including Melanie Chisholm and Shane Lynch have recently filed claims against Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Group Newspapers for alleged phone hacking incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The firm has spent millions of pounds fighting similar cases annually, and even has an ongoing case brought against it by Prince Harry for hacking his voicemails.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man imprisoned for scamming $1.8m from hundreds of victims<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he United States\u2019 Department of Justice has revealed that Joseph Asan Jr., a US Army Reservist, was involved in a scheme to commit romance fraud and business email compromise. Asan has been sentenced to 46 months and ordered to pay approximately US$1.8 million in restitution for his involvement in the scams.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hacker group BlackMatter targets Olympus<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olympus has fallen victim to hacker group BlackMatter. It has been confirmed that ransomware from BlackMatter affected the company\u2019s IT systems in some of its EMEA areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olympus has reassured all customers that its \u201cdaily business operations are working as normal, ensuring the uninterrupted supply of our services for patients\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hackers attack agriculture firms<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple companies in the agriculture and food industries have recently been the targets of hackers. Some of the latest victims include meatpacking giant JBS USA and New Cooperative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The food and agriculture sectors are known to have vulnerabilities that are easily exploited by hackers, especially since they rely heavily on technology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EasyDMARC&#8217;s Email Security Monthly Review contains a summary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-round-up"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Email Security Monthly Review - September 2021 | EasyDMARC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EasyDMARC&#039;s Email Security Monthly Review contains news and developments regarding email security worldwide in September 2021.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/email-security-monthly-review-september-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Email Security Monthly Review - September 2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EasyDMARC&#039;s Email Security Monthly Review contains news and developments regarding email security worldwide in September 2021.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/email-security-monthly-review-september-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EasyDMARC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasyDMARC\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-05T11:41:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-18T04:26:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/easydmarc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/top-image-new-05.10-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"910\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"EasyDMARC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@easydmarc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@easydmarc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"EasyDMARC\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/easydmarc.com\\\/blog\\\/email-security-monthly-review-september-2021\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/easydmarc.com\\\/blog\\\/email-security-monthly-review-september-2021\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"EasyDMARC\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/easydmarc.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/449261e9810b270cc697c7c9c5b89e97\"},\"headline\":\"Email Security Monthly Review &#8211; 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