PoC Exploit Compromises Microsoft Live Accounts via Subdomain Hijacking
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fake live.com update your mailbox phishing scam
We see lots of phishing attempts for email credentials. This one is slightly different than many others. It pretends to be a message from Email Support to Update Your Mailbox. Of course these don’t come from Microsoft or Live.com but are spoofed to appear to come from them. They use email … Continue reading → Continue reading fake live.com update your mailbox phishing scam
Recycled email addresses and Outlook nicknames
The revelations (last October) that Microsoft is quietly recycling email addresses from its Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com domains might have come as a surprise to some. According to an email statement from Microsoft to PCWorld.com cited in the article, when an account becomes inactive, “the email account is automatically queued for deletion from our servers.
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