Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages
Microsoft collaborated with Japan's National Police Agency to dismantle a massive cybercrime network known as YAM Store. The operation successfully disabled over 20,000 accounts and blocked 100,000 domains used for phishing scams that targeted over a billion messages globally.
Why it matters
This takedown represents a significant blow to global phishing infrastructure, highlighting the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in combating large-scale digital fraud.
We’ve all gotten a scam text about a nonexistent parking ticket or a fake package delivery, but hopefully you’ll start seeing fewer of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages like those around the world. Through an investigation with Japan’s National Police Agency, it tracked scam activity back to a marketplace called YAM Store and a pair of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man:
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