By Dark Reading
Publication Date: 2026-01-14 19:07:00
Microsoft recently participated in a coordinated legal action to disrupt RedVDS, a cybercrime service that stole millions from victims.
The tech giant said in a blog post today that the disruption was part of a broader operation with international law enforcement that enabled Microsoft and partners to “seize key malicious infrastructure and take the RedVDS marketplace offline.” RedVDS sells a monthly subscription to criminals enabling the use of “disposable virtual computers that make fraud cheap, scalable, and difficult to trace.”
In practice, the service enables high-volume phishing email campaigns and hosts the infrastructure needed to facilitate cybercrime. Commonly, Microsoft said, RedVDS attacks enabled business email compromise (BEC). “In these schemes, attackers gain unauthorized access to email accounts, quietly monitor ongoing conversations, and wait for the right moment, such as an upcoming payment or wire transfer,” the software giant said in its post. “At that point,…
