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Security bug allows anyone to spoof Microsoft employee emails (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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A researcher has found a way to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, which could make phishing attacks harder to spot.

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

However to mitigate it as much as possible is what DMARC DNS entries are supposed to help with, by providing assurance that the email was sent by an SMTP server allowed to send email on behalf of the domain.

+DKIM and SPF as long as we're naming email authentication methods.

[–] pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

yup, those too.