Email Attacks Use Fake VAT Returns to Deliver Malware

  • 17 October 2017
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By Kevin Townsend on October 16, 2017 Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is designed to stop phishing. One of the most phished domain names in the world is the UK tax office, HMRC (@HMRC.gov.uk). HMRC has implemented DMARC to counter this phishing, and in November 2016 it announced, "We have already managed to reduce phishing emails by 300 million this year through spearheading the use of DMARC. It allows us and email service providers to identify fraudulent emails purporting to be from genuine HMRC domains and prevent their delivery to customers." Full Article.

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Now this is what proactive is all about...............hats off to DMARC) the key word in this thread is genuine HMRC domains

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