Security News > 2020 > July > Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5
Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks.
"Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit 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.
The phishing lures included bait text such as "COVID-19 Bonus," said Microsoft.
Upon clicking links provided in the phishing emails, victims were sent to a web app demanding extra permissions.
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 stop agents helping themselves to non-US customer data stored on non-US-based Microsoft servers.
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