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Julian Assange was offered a pardon by the White House only if he publicly said Russia did not hack the Democratic National Committee, according to the WikiLeaks supremo's lawyer. Assange appeared in the central London court via video link from prison.
Fresh from last week's controversy with a US telco, German secure email biz Tutanota has declared today that the Russian authorities have pulled the plug on its services. In a statement announcing the block, Tutanota co-founder Matthias Pfau lamented the spread of "Censorship" online.
Another option is to report the email to Microsoft for analysis via the Outlook add-in called Report Message or a specific Microsoft address. You can use the process to report a "False negative," meaning a spam message that should have been identified as spam but was not.
Knowing the topic is critical for many, spammers are sending phishing emails with malicious attachments masquerading as instructions around the coronavirus. These coronavirus-themed phishing emails could affect businesses due to China's role in the world economy, according to OneSpan.
Encrypted email service Tutanota on Thursday accused US mega-telco AT&T of blocking its service in some parts of America, and cited the service interruption, ongoing for more than two weeks, as evidence for the need for net neutrality. "Starting on January 25th 2020, we have had constant complaints from AT&T mobile users who were unable to access their encrypted Tutanota mailbox," company co-founder Matthias Pfau, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
Agari's Cyber Intelligence Division, which concentrates on email threat investigations, has found that 60% of employee-reported suspect emails are false positives. Wire transfer scams also increased from 19% to 22%, while payroll diversion scams fell from around 25% to 16%. There is another shift within the fraudulent emails.
IRONSCALES, the pioneer of self-learning email security, announced that its email security platform has surpassed more than 1,000 active security professionals worldwide. "With millions of sophisticated email phishing attacks targeting inboxes around the world, it is nearly impossible for organisations to keep up using traditional, static threat intelligence sources," said Eyal Benishti, IRONSCALES founder and CEO. "To help solve this epidemic, IRONSCALES harnesses the collective expertise of more than a thousand security professionals working for organizations' security teams around the globe."
Some of the companies listed in the J.P. Morgan document sell data sourced from "Personal inboxes," the document adds. A spokesperson for J.P. Morgan Research, the part of the company that created the document, told Motherboard that the research "Is intended for institutional clients."
Several cybersecurity companies have spotted campaigns that use coronavirus-themed emails to deliver malware, phishing attempts and scams. The malicious emails warn potential victims about the impact of the coronavirus on the shipping industry.
A non-password protected cloud database containing hundreds of millions of customer records and internal logs for cosmetic giant Estée Lauder has been found exposed online, according to researchers. Many of the records importantly contained plaintext email addresses.