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Discovery of SCAMS in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.

Security researchers MalwareHunterTeam and JayTHL discovered nearly 200 websites hosted on the Azure App Services platform. 

These sites display SCAMS, technical support scams. Scammers pose as fake technical support from Microsoft and Apple.

Microsoft support scams invade Azure cloud services

Tech support scams have always been a problem, but they have typically been localized to small web hosting services around the world. Researchers have now observed that these scams are increasingly moving towards the Microsoft Azure cloud platform for easy deployment and inexpensive web hosting.



SCAM is an English slang term meaning “scam” and defining a material or moral scam on the Internet. The general principle is based on emails being sent by scammers who seek to gain the trust of people in order to extort money from them. 419 fraud (also called 419 scam, or Nigerian scam) is a widespread Internet scam. The name 4-1-9 comes from the article number of the Nigerian code penalizing this type of fraud.

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