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Exchange Online mistakenly tags emails as malware
Image: MidjourneyMicrosoft is investigating an Exchange Online false positive issue causing emails containing images to be wrongly tagged as malicious and sent to quarantine. “Users’ email messages containing images may be incorrectly flagged as malware and quarantined,” Microsoft said in a service alert posted on the Microsoft 365 admin center two hours ago. “We’re reviewing service monitoring telemetry to isolate…
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A flaw in Proofpoint’s anti-phishing platform allowed a hacker to send millions of spam emails
Phishing campaigns were undertaken by a malicious actor through an exploited configuration of Proofpoint’s anti-phishing platform, allowing a malicious actor to send spam emails according to the firm. Dubbed “EchoSpoofing,” a report from Guardio Labs estimated that cyber criminals could have sent an approximate daily average of three million emails a day – with peak daily numbers reaching as high…
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Thousands targeted with phishing emails after cyber attack on Greater Manchester councils
A major cyber attack that’s hit councils across Greater Manchester has highlighted the risks local authorities face. The attack on Locata affected the housing websites for Manchester, Salford, and Bolton councils, which are run by the software firm. It’s led to thousands of users being sent a phishing email asking them to ‘activate your tenancy options’ and hand over their…
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Home Office confirms Russian threat actors accessed emails after Microsoft hack
The Russian hacking group Midnight Blizzard breached the UK Home Office and stole sensitive data as part of the hacking campaign revealed earlier this year. Freedom of Information (FoI) requests from Recorded Future News indicate that the Russia-backed hacking group was able to access corporate emails and data shared with Microsoft. The Home Office said its own systems weren’t affected,…
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