Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks.
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.
“Microsoft’s 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,” said the mega-corp in a blog post this week.
Having KO’d them back then through unspecified “technical means to block the criminals’ activity and disable the malicious application used in the attack,” Redmond’s people observed them setting up again to try business email compromise attacks with a coronavirus theme.
