Sent from Outlook for iOS links Being Quarantined in Defender

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Hi,

 

Microsoft seem to be falsely flagging their own shortening URL for hxxps://aka.ms/o0ukef as High Confidence Phishing

 

This is the link that is created in emails when a user sends an email from Outlook for iOS

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This is causing a lot of emails to be blocked and sent to the Quarantine queue.

 

Can someone at MS take a look and get this addressed.

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Summary: Recently, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 observed false positives from heuristic-based detections related to URLs targeting fake Microsoft notification emails, e.g. Password expiry notifications. These detections are used to target the ever-changing email threat landscape and adjust to new tactics and techniques by various threat actors. These specific detections have been adjusted and the false positive issue has been mitigated. Furthermore, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has implemented a long-term solution to handle such aka.ms links in a more robust fashion.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Product Group