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'What appears to be a simple scam message is often the visible end of a much larger transnational cybercriminal operation': Microsoft leads global takedown of phishing network which sent over a billion messages

* Microsoft helped dismantle a cybercrime marketplace that sold phishing tools, accounts, and scam infrastructure * Platforms CoGUI and Iron Man enabled large-scale phishing campaigns targeting organizations worldwide * The operation drove over a billion phishing messages before domains and thousands of accounts were seized Late last year, Microsoft set out to investigate