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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] pleasejustdie 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My initial question was did this "researcher" just discover SMTP Open Relay? Cause if so I can do the exact same thing by configuring my SMTP server to open relay then using telnet to connect to it and issue the SMTP commands directly and it will send the email as though sent from whatever email address I want. This has been a known issue with SMTP for decades at this point and can't be reliably resolved with SMTP, but since the whole world uses it for email, its probably not going away any time soon. 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.

I used to send people emails from themselves to demonstrate why they can't trust the "from" address when they get an e-mail.

[–] [email protected] 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 7 points 5 months ago

yup, those too.

[–] IHawkMike 8 points 5 months ago

Exactly. Show me the Authentication-Results header or gtfo.