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Email spoofing in Office 365

More and more companies use Microsoft 365, well even we at Compass-Security use it internally. Moving to the cloud solves many issues that our DFIR team had to deal with in the past years. Managed infrastructure means no ProxyShell, Hafnium, etc. We’re grateful for that.
Email authentication and security is another complex topic that was often misconfigured in the past. We often could send phishing email in the name of our clients during assessments. Office 365 makes the life of scammers and phishers somehow harder. We’re also grateful for that.
However we still encounter some O365 environments where it’s possible to send spoofed emails. Why is that, you ask? We also wondered and dug into the O365 features and settings!

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On Raising Awareness to Social Engineering Attack

When attackers try to access confidential data, to steal money or simply to disrupt a business, they will often look for the weakest link to get inside a target network. In some case, this might be an outdated system exposed to the internet or an easy physical access to the network but quite often, the […]

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Exchange Forensics

Introduction The number one form of communication in corporate environments is email. Alone in 2015, the number of business emails sent and received per day were estimated to be over 112 billion [1] and employees spend on average 13 hours per week in their email inbox [2]. Unfortunately, emails are at times also misused for illegitimate […]

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