Vietnam’s Massive CAPTCHA crackers vs. Microsoft DCU

Earlier this month, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit was featured in a WIRED article by Lily Hay Newman - Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime. In part, the article discusses MS-DCU's case against the hackers that they call Storm-1152. According to DCU, Storm-1152 used their CAPTCHA-cracking capabilities to assist other criminals in the massive creation of Microsoft email accounts, such as Hotmail and Outlook accounts. How many? How about 750 MILLION email accounts created for illicit …

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