Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages

We've each gotten a scam substance astir a nonexistent parking summons oregon a fake bundle delivery, but hopefully you'll commencement seeing less of them. Microsoft says it helped dismantle a marketplace for scammers sending phishing messages similar those astir the world. Through an probe with Japan's National Police Agency, it tracked scam enactment backmost to a marketplace called YAM Store and a brace of phishing kits, CoGUI and Iron Man:

Since January 2026, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man person collectively enabled much than 1 cardinal malicious messages targeting implicit 75,000 organizations worldwide, including much than 750 cardinal messages geared to …

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