A fake Facebook account of Dabhoi BJP MLA Shailesh Mehta has been created by cyber frauds. Mehta alerted his followers on Facebook about the fake account and registered a complaint with the police seeking action.
Crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) gang flies past CAPTCHAs, creating fraudulent accounts to sell to the likes of Scattered Spider; Microsoft mounts a counterattack.
Microsoft has seized the websites of a Vietnam-based group it alleges sold millions of fake accounts to cybercriminals who used them for ransomware attacks, identity theft and other scams around the world.
The group, identified by Microsoft as Storm-1152, developed sophisticated tools to defeat the US tech giant s security features to set up fraudulent Outlook and Hotmail email accounts in bulk.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 15, 2023 - Microsoft has seized the websites of a Vietnam-based group it alleges sold millions of fake accounts to cybercriminals who used them for ransomware attacks, identity theft and other scams around the world.