Microsoft warns of phishing campaign exploiting global Microsoft 365 outage
Microsoft Threat Intelligence warned about a phishing campaign exploiting the Microsoft 365 disruption of November 12. The emails impersonate official service status notifications and falsely claim that some messages were held during the outage and will be deleted within 24 hours unless the user clicks a link. According to Microsoft, the campaign uses three fraudulent domains and links to external pages, with characteristics of credential theft. The company apologized for the outage and ruled out cybersecurity or artificial intelligence as its cause.
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- Microsoft Threat Intelligence warned about fraudulent emails impersonating notices about Microsoft 365 service status.
- The messages claim emails were held due to the outage and will be deleted in 24 hours unless a link is clicked.
- The campaign uses three fraudulent domains and links to external pages, with characteristics of credential theft.
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