Over 3,000 tech support scams spotted on Microsoft TechNet pages

guest · Sep 11, 2018

Over 3,000 tech support scams spotted on Microsoft TechNet pages
September 11, 2018
https://www.neowin.net/news/over-3000-tech-support-scams-spotted-on-microsoft-technet-pages

In order to bolster their reputation and chance of ranking higher in search results, these scammers have recently turned their focus towards the Microsoft TechNet portal.

TechNet provides product documentation, forums, and a download hub for a wide variety of Microsoft-related software solutions. Security researcher Cody Johnston recently found more than 3,000 pages on TechNet containing tech support scams that promote phone numbers for cryptocurrency exchanges and social media sites.

ZDNet noted that this technique lends some sort of "reputational boost" to the scams as they show up on the microsoft.com domain, with majority of the shady services created on the gallery.technet.microsoft.com subdomain.
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