ZDNet – “Three billion phishing emails are sent every day. But one change could make life much harder for scammers. Phishing attacks remain extremely popular with cyber criminals – but by applying DMARC, organisations can help thwart them. Cyber criminals are sending over three billion emails a day as part of phishing attacks designed to look like they come from trusted senders. By spoofing the sender identity used in the ‘from’ field in messages, cyber criminals attempt to lure potential victims into opening emails from names they trust. This could be the name of a trusted brand like a retailer or delivery company, or even, in more sophisticated attacks, the name of their CEO or a colleague. These phishing attacks might sound simple, but they work – and that’s why so many of these messages are distributed by cyber criminals. And according to a report by email security company Valimail, over three billion spoofing messages are sent every day, accounting for 1% of all email traffic…”