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As phishing-as-a-service goes industrial, Microsoft takes down a marketplace behind 1 billion messages
Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages.
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Microsoft announced that it has dismantled Yam Store, an underground marketplace that facilitated commercial phishing‑as‑a‑service and was linked to roughly one billion malicious messages. The takedown resulted from a nearly year‑long investigation conducted jointly with international authorities and multiple technology and cybersecurity firms. Red mond’s effort identified the network’s operations and coordinated the removal of the platform. The action underscores a collaborative approach to disrupting large‑scale phishing infrastructure.
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