{"id":35957,"date":"2020-07-08T22:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-sues-coronavirus-phishing-spammers-to-seize-their-domains-amid-web-app-attacks-against-office-265\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:07:45","slug":"microsoft-sues-coronavirus-phishing-spammers-to-seize-their-domains-amid-web-app-attacks-against-office-265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-sues-coronavirus-phishing-spammers-to-seize-their-domains-amid-web-app-attacks-against-office-265\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 265"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows giant obtained an order from US courts allowing it to seize domains being used for phishing, having first spotted the miscreants doing their thing in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft\u2019s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) first observed these criminals in December 2019, when they deployed a sophisticated, new phishing scheme designed to compromise Microsoft customer accounts,\u201d said the mega-corp in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2020\/07\/07\/digital-crimes-unit-covid-19-cybercrime\/\">blog post<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Having KO\u2019d them back then through unspecified \u201ctechnical means to block the criminals\u2019 activity and disable the malicious application used in the attack,\u201d Redmond\u2019s people observed them setting up again to try business email compromise attacks with a coronavirus theme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2019\/08\/05\/shutterstock_hiding_from_computer.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Someone peeking over their desk out of sight\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"DNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief\">Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/07\/07\/microsoft_azure_takeovers\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The phishing lures included bait text such as \u201cCOVID-19 Bonus,\u201d said Microsoft. Upon clicking links provided in the phishing emails, victims were sent to a web app demanding extra permissions. Once armed with this elevated access, the web app would then access the victims&#8217; Office 365 accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis scheme enabled unauthorized access without explicitly requiring the victims to directly give up their login credentials at a fake website or similar interface, as they would in a more traditional phishing campaign,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Redmond has not shied away from legal action over the years, the most high-profile sueball being its ongoing case against the American government to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2018\/04\/17\/supreme_court_punts_email_seizure_decision_into_the_long_grass\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stop agents<\/a> helping themselves to non-US customer data stored on non-US-based Microsoft servers. It\u2019s also suing Uncle Sam for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2019\/09\/27\/microsoft_gag_orders\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the right to tell<\/a> customers when American spies are trawling through data stored on Microsoft services.<\/p>\n<p>Further back in time, MICROS~1 has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/09\/21\/microsoft_sues_recycler_office_2010_copyright\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued dodgy resellers<\/a>, operators of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/08\/21\/microsoft_sues_interdigital_over_mobile_patents\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged monopolies<\/a> (stop laughing at the back), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2012\/10\/12\/microsoft_suing_google\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> and, at the dawn of time, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2006\/09\/13\/ms_sues_british_spammer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Hotmail<\/a> spammers. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/07\/08\/microsoft_sues_phishers\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very busy six months for Redmond&#8217;s Digital Crimes Unit Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft sues coronavirus 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