New, by me: Scammers are abusing a legitimate internal Microsoft account (used for sending critical account alerts and MFA codes to users logging in) to send spam and scam emails.
We first saw a flood of these emails last week, but anti-spam project Spamhaus says this has been going on for months.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam
Zack Whittaker
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2026-05-21 11:56:18 UTC
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