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PhishPoint: New SharePoint Phishing Scam Affects an Estimated 10% of Office 365 Users

Over the past two weeks, we detected (and blocked) a new SharePoint scam phishing attack that affected about 10% of Avanan's Office 365 customers. We estimate this p...

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Fake Email Invoices: Why Office 365 Keeps Missing These Phishing Attacks?

Emails with fake invoices has been one of the most popular attack vectors against Office 365 email users for the past several years. The malicious emails are disguis...

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ACE Archives: Microsoft finally closes hole that allowed trojans to bypass Office 365 default security

For several weeks, we detected (and blocked) an attack targeting one of the largest municipalities in the U.S. that bypassed Office 365 default security, using a sim...

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ZeroFont Phishing: Manipulating Font Size to Get Past Office 365 Security

Recently, we have been seeing a number of phishing attacks using a simple strategy to get their blatant email spoofs past Microsoft's phishing scans. The font manipu...

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baseStriker: Office 365 Security Fails To Secure 100 Million Email Users

Update: Microsoft has repaired this vulnerability on 5/16/18, two weeks after we first reported it to them. We recently uncovered what may be the largest security fl...

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The "Ronald Reagan" Attack Allows Hackers to Bypass Gmail's Anti-phishing Security

We started tracking a new method hackers use to bypass Gmail's SPF check for spear-phishing. The hackers send from an external server, the user receives the email fr...

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Why Mailsploit Is One of the Most Dangerous New Phishing Schemes

Avanan has been catching multiple attacks against its customers using a new phishing method called Mailsploit. We have observed this attack on both Office 365 and Gm...

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Attack Report: Phishing Your HR Platform in the Cloud

Avanan’s security analysts recently tracked an increased number of attacks against cloud-based HR systems such as ADP, Workday, Zenefits and Justworks, to compromise...

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Attack Report: Gmail Vulnerable to Nickname Impersonation Spearphishing

The Basics of the Nickname Email Spoof Attack We have trained our users to distrust a sender's nickname and validate an identity by looking at the original email add...

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Attack Report: Excel Phishing Attack that Bypasses Office 365

This targeted phishing attack against Office 365 Outlook customers impersonates Excel Online in an HTML attachment in order to trick users into entering their creden...

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