New Delhi. Microsoft has faced a major outage, due to which many of its services were down for 36 hours. During this period, Microsoft customers were not able to use Outlook, Teams and many office apps.
Now Microsoft has shared an important information and said that hackers are trying to target people by taking advantage of the outage, with the help of which they are trying to steal login passwords. This may include details of even bank account.
Microsoft has shared information about a new campaign of cyber hackers, in which it has been told that hackers are taking advantage of Microsoft's outage and sending messages containing dangerous links to people and inciting people to click on them.
Information given by Microsoft post
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has made a post on social media platform Hackers have been copying Microsoft's service notifications.
Emails are afraid of being deleted soon
Hackers are telling innocent users that emails stopped during the outage may soon be deleted. Whereas the company has said that this message is not the real message sent by Microsoft.
Attempt to hack smartphone and phone
Microsoft has said that hackers want to take advantage of the outage to break into people's laptops and smartphones. With its help they want to steal login and password details.
Fake claim of deleting messages within 24 hours
Microsoft has informed that some users are receiving fake mail, in which it has been told that due to outage some messages were put on hold and if the users want to get those messages back, then click on the given link, otherwise the emails and messages will be deleted within 24 hours.
Do not click on unknown links even by mistake
In such situations, users act hastily and become victims of hackers. Hackers want people to click on that link without checking the notification. If you also get such a message, then be cautious of it.
Microsoft has identified the sender domain associated with this phishing campaign. This includes the names of moments-notice Dot com, planetmaison Dot com and newbooker Dot com.
Microsoft gave important advice for safety
Microsoft has advised its users not to click on the links given in any such fake emails and messages. One should avoid clicking on any unknown link, these can be tricks of cyber thugs and due to this many people's phone or laptop can be hacked.