Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients Microsoft has backed away from planned changes to Exchange Online after customers objected to limits designed to curb outbound email abuse.…

Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people Food delivery company HelloFresh is nursing a £140,000 ($178k) fine by Britain’s data privacy watchdog after a probe found it had dispatched upwards of a staggering 79 million spam email and one million texts in just seven months.…

AI is beefing up the cyber arsenals of both attackers and defenders Sponsored Feature Email is a popular target for cybercriminals, offering an easy way of launching an attack disguised as an innocent message. One moment of inattention on the part of the recipient and the door is open to malware, spam, phishing, perhaps even a dose of the dreaded ransomware. Entire organisations can suffer, not just individual victims.…

Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers Spam-tracking service Spamhaus reported Tuesday that some of the world's biggest brands are getting loose with their email practices, causing its spam blocklists (SBL) to swell significantly.…

Windows backdoor shows off some interesting techniques Cyber-criminals are using compromised Microsoft Exchange servers to spam out emails designed to infect people's PCs with IcedID,…