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Microsoft Takes Down YAM Store, a Marketplace Behind More Than 1 Billion Scam Messages


Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has dismantled YAM Store, a Chinese-language marketplace that sold ready-made phishing kits and hijacked accounts, and used to send more than 1 billion scam messages to over 75,000 organisations since January 2026. Microsoft says it disabled more than 20,000 accounts and is blocking over 100,000 fraud domains.

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