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Security bug allows anyone to spoof Microsoft employee emails

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STIX ID: report--af8e4cd2-32d1-524e-bffa-c9a826085b38

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2024-06-18

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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A researcher reported an unpatched email‑spoofing bug that can impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts for messages sent to Outlook users; the researcher said Microsoft initially could not reproduce the issue, so he publicized the finding on X while TechCrunch withheld technical details to avoid enabling abuse. The flaw potentially affects Outlook’s large user base (Microsoft cites ~400 million users), but there is no public evidence yet of widespread malicious exploitation.

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