"Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale. Redmond says it has filed parallel civil actions in the US and the UK, yanking RedVDS's marketplace and customer portal offline and seizing chunks of its infrastructure as part of a wider cross-border operation involving Europol and German law enforcement."
"RedVDS is a cybercrime-as-a-service platform that sells criminals access to disposable virtual dedicated servers for as little as $24 a month. Those rented machines are then used to send phishing emails, hijack accounts, and run scams that Microsoft says have resulted in roughly $40 million in reported fraud losses in the US alone. The operation leaned on both the legal system and technical disruption."
Microsoft filed parallel civil actions in the US and the UK and took technical steps to disrupt RedVDS, a cybercrime-as-a-service marketplace. The company and law enforcement seized domains, took the marketplace and customer portal offline, and seized portions of the platform's infrastructure. RedVDS rented disposable virtual dedicated servers to criminals for as little as $24 per month, which were used to send phishing emails, hijack accounts, and run scams. Microsoft linked the service to roughly $40 million in reported US fraud losses and identified a global network of criminals targeting multiple industry sectors.
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