Microsoft cracked the "Underground Industry case" of the hacker organization Storm-1152 by setting up 750 million Outlook accounts for sale

CTOnews.com December 15 news, Microsoft recently announced cooperation with security company Arkose Labs, cracked an Outlook black account case, uncovered the hacker organization Storm-1152 behind it, successfully took over a series of domain names of hacker organizations, and closed related websites and Facebook fan pages.

▲ Source Microsoft official press release (the same below)

▲ Microsoft successfully shut down the hacker organization's website CTOnews.com learned from a press release released by Microsoft that the hacker organization Storm-1152 specializes in selling Outlook accounts for use by criminal organizations. The organization used robots to create more than 750 million accounts, involving "millions of dollars" and claiming "Cybercrime as a Service"(CaaS).

▲ It is reported that Storm-1152 customers cover a series of phishing fraud and ransomware groups. In addition to selling Outlook accounts, the hacker organization also sells a series of tools that can be used to bypass the platform Captcha system, such as 1stCAPTCHA, AnyCAPTCHA, NoneCAPTCHA, etc.