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Microsoft and Japan disrupt network behind over a billion scam messages
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Microsoft and Japan disrupt network behind over a billion scam messages

So, there’s some encouraging news for anyone tired of fake delivery and parking-ticket texts: Microsoft and Japan’s National Police Agency have helped dismantle a marketplace and phishing tools linked to more than a billion scam messages. Since January 2026, the YAM Store marketplace and the CoGUI and Iron Man kits have targeted over 75,000 organizations across more than 150 countries. Microsoft says scammers used them to obtain accounts and impersonate organizations, with Iron Man offering more than 2,300 ready-made templates. The company disabled over 20,000 connected accounts and blocked more than 100,000 fraudulent web domains, while partners seized and redirected domains powering the operation.
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