Latest Email news

Google is retiring its Gmail Basic HTML view in January 2024

Google is notifying Gmail users that the webmail's Basic HTML view will be deprecated in January 2024, and users will require modern browsers to continue using the service.
- Bill Toulas
- September 25, 2023
- 12:08 PM
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Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist

Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, a 29-year-old Nigerian national extradited from Canada to the United States last April, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise (BEC).
- Bill Toulas
- September 22, 2023
- 03:24 PM
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Fake YouPorn extortion scam threatens to leak your sex tape

A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to have it taken down.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 02, 2023
- 10:12 AM
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Phishing campaign steals accounts for Zimbra email servers worlwide

An ongoing phishing campaign has been underway since at least April 2023 that attempts to steal credentials for Zimbra Collaboration email servers worldwide.
- Bill Toulas
- August 17, 2023
- 01:22 PM
- 0
Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack

A phishing campaign was observed predominantly targeting a notable energy company in the US, employing QR codes to slip malicious emails into inboxes and bypass security.
- Bill Toulas
- August 16, 2023
- 10:16 AM
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Hackers exploited Salesforce zero-day in Facebook phishing attack

Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce's email services and SMTP servers to launch a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting valuable Facebook accounts.
- Bill Toulas
- August 02, 2023
- 09:52 AM
- 0
Threat actors abuse Google AMP for evasive phishing attacks

Security researchers are warning of increased phishing activity that abuses Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to bypass email security measures and get to inboxes of enterprise employees.
- Bill Toulas
- August 01, 2023
- 01:43 PM
- 0
Microsoft shares fix for some Outlook hyperlinks not opening

Microsoft shared a workaround for Outlook Desktop blocking attempts to open IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) hyperlinks after installing this month's Office security updates.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 24, 2023
- 12:03 PM
- 0
Microsoft Exchange Online hit by new outage blocking emails

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Exchange Online outage preventing customers from sending emails and triggering 503 errors on affected systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 18, 2023
- 05:06 AM
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Barracuda working on fix for ongoing Email Gateway login issues

Email and network security firm Barracuda is working to fix an ongoing issue that triggers invalid login errors and prevents Email Gateway Defense users from signing into their accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 07, 2023
- 11:19 AM
- 0
Microsoft investigates Outlook.com bug breaking email search

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing Outlook.com users from searching their emails and triggering 401 exception errors.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 06, 2023
- 07:50 AM
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Microsoft 365 users report Outlook, Teams won't start or freezes

Network and IT admins have been dealing with ongoing Microsoft 365 issues this week, reporting that some end users cannot use Microsoft Outlook or other Microsoft 365 apps.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 22, 2023
- 05:19 PM
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Barracuda ESG zero-day attacks linked to suspected Chinese hackers

A suspected pro-China hacker group tracked by Mandiant as UNC4841 has been linked to data-theft attacks on Barracuda ESG (Email Security Gateway) appliances using a now-patched zero-day vulnerability.
- Bill Toulas
- June 15, 2023
- 09:25 AM
- 0
Online sellers targeted by new information-stealing malware campaign

Online sellers are targeted in a new campaign to push the Vidar information-stealing malware, allowing threat actors to steal credentials for more damaging attacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 03, 2023
- 11:52 AM
- 1
New Horabot campaign takes over victim's Gmail, Outlook accounts

A previously unknown campaign involving the Horabot botnet malware has targeted Spanish-speaking users in Latin America since at least November 2020, infecting them with a banking trojan and spam tool.
- Bill Toulas
- June 01, 2023
- 04:54 PM
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MalasLocker ransomware targets Zimbra servers, demands charity donation

A new ransomware operation is hacking Zimbra servers to steal emails and encrypt files. However, instead of demanding a ransom payment, the threat actors claim to require a donation to charity to provide an encryptor and prevent data leaking.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 17, 2023
- 06:13 PM
- 0
Microsoft fixes Outlook issue blocking access to emails, calendars

Microsoft has addressed a known issue affecting Outlook for Microsoft 365 customers that prevented them from accessing group mailboxes and calendars using the Outlook desktop client.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 27, 2023
- 11:36 AM
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Microsoft shares fix for Outlook issue blocking access to emails

Microsoft is working on fixing an issue affecting some Outlook for Microsoft 365 customers and preventing them from accessing emails and their calendars.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 13, 2023
- 01:18 PM
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Winter Vivern hackers exploit Zimbra flaw to steal NATO emails

A Russian hacking group tracked as TA473, aka 'Winter Vivern,' has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched Zimbra endpoints since February 2023 to steal the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats.
- Bill Toulas
- March 30, 2023
- 05:56 PM
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Exchange Online to block emails from vulnerable on-prem servers

Microsoft is introducing a new Exchange Online security feature that will automatically start throttling and eventually block all emails sent from "persistently vulnerable Exchange servers" 90 days after the admins are pinged to secure them.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 27, 2023
- 05:43 PM
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