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Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by higgsboson@dubvee.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don't meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks.

As announced in October, the company now requires those who want to dispatch over 5,000 messages daily to Gmail accounts to set up SPF/DKIM and DMARC email authentication for their domains.

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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 48 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Yay, does this mean that Google is going to stop saying the masked email address is the sender and hide the true email address?

You know, like MS has done for over 15 years now?

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you use for MS? I know live.com still struggles with this. Though I did create a rule that junked every email with no valid SPF record, so that helps.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

It was a work issue about a decade ago. Client wanted certain emails from automation to be masked as coming from him.

Most email boxes, including Gmail, didn't have an issue. Outlook(the one that shipped with Office) laughed at it and displayed the original sender in giant bold letters.

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