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A US court authorised the seizure of domains that Microsoft described as a widely used service for buying fraudulent Hotmail accounts in bulk, which were then resold to other criminal operators at scale.
View sourceReporting on the same disruption noted that the fraudulent Outlook accounts were sold through a dedicated service and that a well-known intrusion group was among the buyers, using the accounts to support further attacks.
View sourceMicrosoft and a fraud-prevention vendor disclosed the disruption of a group that Microsoft estimates created and sold roughly 750 million fraudulent Outlook and Hotmail accounts, together with automated CAPTCHA-solving services, to other criminal groups.
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