Queen Elizabeth II

Published on: 
September 8, 2022

Phishing Attacks for Microsoft Credentials and MFA codes

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at age 96. As with other major world events, we unfortunately expect to see questionable related domain registrations. Please be mindful when visiting news or commemoration sites relating to this.

We anticipated questionable domain registrations in relation to this event and ThreatInsight now has corroborating reports that threat actors are using phishing attacks to steal Microsoft account credentials and MFA codes: https://x.com/threatinsight/status/1570092339984584705

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