According to Microsoft, email bombing threats will now be automatically detected and blocked by its Defender for Office 365 cloud-based email protection package.
Defender for Office 365 (formerly known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection or Office 365 ATP) defends businesses dealing with sophisticated threat actors and high-risk industries against harmful threats from links, emails, and collaboration platforms.
In a Microsoft 365 message center update, Redmond writes, We’re introducing a new detection capability in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to help protect your organization from a growing threat known as email bombing.
This type of exploitation overwhelms systems or obscures essential messages by flooding mailboxes with large amounts of email. Security teams will be able to keep an eye on actual threats thanks to the new ‘Mail Bombing’ detector read more about Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now blocks email bombing attacks.
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