Mailsploit Lets Hackers Forge Perfect Email Spoofs

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 7:59 a.m.

Pretending to be someone you're not in an email has never been quite hard enough\u2014hence phishing, that eternal scourge of internet security. But now one researcher has dug up a new collection of bugs in email programs that in many cases strip away even the existing, imperfect protections against email impersonation, allowing anyone to undetectably spoof a message with no hint at all to the recipient.