Re: phishing by deceptive From address detection

2019-12-18 Thread Bill Cole
On 18 Dec 2019, at 8:35, AJ Weber wrote: The 'B' characters have been overlaid with a clearly visible slash, which isn't very clever in a phishing email. Interesting, Thunderbird does not show any visible slash.  Just "BB&T" - though the font looks different. The "=CC=B7" sequence in the

Re: phishing by deceptive From address detection

2019-12-18 Thread AJ Weber
The following header is the FROM in the message envelope. From: =?utf-8?Q?B=CC=B7B=CC=B7&T?= I'm not sure what you mean by disguise, and what you expect should have been done. I suppose you're right.  I wonder if there's a rule I could develop that goes like, [if the descriptive From is

Re: phishing by deceptive From address detection

2019-12-17 Thread RW
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:15:37 -0500 AJ Weber wrote: > Just looking at a phishing email I received and at first glance I > wasn't sure how SA (or more-specifically my SA install/configuration) > didn't score this as spam. > > Looks like I have a whitelist setup for alerts from comcast (probably > a

phishing by deceptive From address detection

2019-12-17 Thread AJ Weber
Just looking at a phishing email I received and at first glance I wasn't sure how SA (or more-specifically my SA install/configuration) didn't score this as spam. Looks like I have a whitelist setup for alerts from comcast (probably a bad idea, but let's address that separately). The followi