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"An active phishing campaign is using a crafty combination of legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender addresses that contain the target usernames and domains, and display names that mimic legitimate services to try and slip through email filters," the Microsoft Security Intelligence team Sneakier than usual The use of SharePoint in the display name as well as in the message, is one of the techniques the scam relies on to appear legitimate, as per the researchers. The emails appear to share files that are strategically named as "Staff Reports", "Bonuses", "P...

A phishing campaign is going on right now. It's meant to con Office 365 users into giving up their credentials. Microsoft says to watch out for it. Microsoft wants to alert you to a phishing scheme going on that involves the most classic of tricks, including barely misspelled domain names, URLs, and sender addresses. If you're hyper-vigilant of typos and tend to catch these things even when your spam filters fail to, you're all safe. But for everyone else who only takes a quick glance to verify whether an email is from a legitimate sender, Microsoft has a message: Look closer.

Microsoft Warns of 'Crafty' Phishing Campaign The active campaign uses legitimate-looking original sender addresses and spoofed display sender addresses, along with other tactics, to bypass email filters. Dark Reading Staff PDF Microsoft has warned of an active phishing campaign targeting Office 365 users with a "crafty combination" of techniques aimed at bypassing email filters. The attack uses legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender addresses that contain target usernames and domains, and display names that mimic legitimate services to slip past defenses,...

The group behind the massive SolarWinds hacks has also been running a sophisticated email-based spear-phishing campaign, according to Microsoft. In a blog post by company VP Tom Burt, he said the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected a wave of cyberattacks by the group called Nobelium against government agencies, think tanks and non-governmental organizations. Nobelium apparently sent out 3,000 emails to 150 organizations...

Stop opening PDF files you receive in shady emails, Microsoft finds malware hidden in them Hackers are targeting people who have compromised email accounts and luring them with payment-related emails. Shubham Verma | May 26, 2021 | Updated 12:41 IST Highlights Hackers use the Trojan malware called StrRAT to target compromised email accounts. Microsoft has said its Microsoft 365 Defender can protect machines against this malware. If you have a habit of impulsively opening PDFs that you find attached with emails that look shady at best, you need to stop doing that immediately. Microsoft's Secu...