Report: 1 in 4 Emails That Appear to be Dot-Gov Addresses Are Phishing Attempts

About one-fourth of e-mails that purport to be from federal agencies are malicious phishing e-mails spoofing federal addresses, according to a report from the cybersecurity company Agari. The study was based on Agari clients that use an e-mail security feature called Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC. The Homeland Security Department gave federal agencies three months to install DMARC on their e-mail systems Oct 16 as part of a larger e-mail and web security drive.