As phishing-as-a-service goes industrial, Microsoft takes down a marketplace behind 1 billion messages

Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond identified and took down Yam Store, a coordinated underground network dealing in commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS). The network allowed cybercriminals to readily purchase, and very quickly deploy, pre-made kits they could use in phishing attacks to steal data an