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Office 365 Accounts Compromised via ATO Attacks Used in BEC Scams

More than 1.5 million malicious and spam emails were delivered by threat actors using roughly 4,000 accounts compromised via ATO during March 2019 within a single month. 29 percent of the monitored organizations had their Office 365 accounts infiltrated in ATO attacks. Chinese IP addresses were the most encountered with almost a quarter of the total number of attempts, with attackers also using servers located in Brazil (9%), Russia (7%), Netherlands (5%), and Vietnam (5%) Barracuda advises organizations to use machine-based defense solutions.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/office-365-accounts-compromised-via-ato-attacks-used-in-bec-scams/

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