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How Microsoft thwarts phishing attacks with Office 365
Awesome - thanks for sharing this success story on ATP!
I believe the most-impactful, user-facing improvement they've made on this front is to finally start rolling out the functionality to not display user photos is spoofed messages: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tzink/2017/09/05/showing-a-question-mark-in-the-sender-photo-when-a-message-is-not-authenticated/
Thanks Vasil, that's a useful feature that should help and sounds like it's overdure. If I understand correctly, does that mean if someone spoofs your emaill address (for example), currently it shows your photo to the recipient, lending more credence that's it's a really a legitimate email when it's actually from the spoofed sender? With this feature, there will be a question mark on the sender photo instead, as it's unauthenticated.
It would be nice to see it across all Outlook plaforms, assuming it's OWA/Outlook.com only, which it sounds like.
This is the same feature as Gmail has had since February 2016 and will be implemented in OWA first. Whether it shows up in the other Outlook clients is in the hands of the developers...
