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Microsoft 365 Admin portal abused to send sextortion emails

ID: 14ac5a47-0f97-5623-ac51-b1563c859d4f

STIX ID: report--14ac5a47-0f97-5623-ac51-b1563c859d4f

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2024-11-18

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Lawrence Abrams

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The report details a sextortion scam campaign where attackers abused the Microsoft 365 Message Center 'Share' functionality by altering the client-side character limit to include full extortion messages, causing legitimate-looking emails (from [email protected]) to bypass spam filters; Microsoft investigated and later changed the behavior to mitigate the abuse.

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