Microsoft disrupts RedVDS cybercrime platform behind $40 million in scam losses

Microsoft and international partners dismantled RedVDS, a subscription-based cybercrime service that rented disposable Windows RDP hosts to criminals for large-scale phishing and business email compromise; the platform enabled mass-mailing, credential and token theft, and payment diversion fraud that Microsoft links to more than $40M in losses and roughly 191,000 compromised Microsoft email accounts across 130,000+ organizations.