{"id":1038414,"date":"2026-09-24T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038414"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:24:25","slug":"microsoft-says-it-has-taken-down-ai-chatbot-built-for-cybercrime-that-hacked-12000-plus-emails-across-over-10000-organisations-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/microsoft-says-it-has-taken-down-ai-chatbot-built-for-cybercrime-that-hacked-12000-plus-emails-across-over-10000-organisations-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says it has taken down \u2018AI chatbot built for cybercrime\u2019 that hacked 12,000-plus emails across over 10,000 organisations globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has said that it has thwarted an effort to shut down a subscription-based scam platform that relied on an AI chatbot to break into more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts over the course of a few months. The platform, called EvilTokens, first surfaced on a Telegram channel back in February, charging users an initial fee of $1,500 followed by a recurring monthly charge of $500. EvilTokens essentially offered a one-stop service that streamlined nearly every step needed to compromise email accounts at scale. According to the company, once inside, the platform helped its customers sift through victims&#8217; inboxes, identify the most targets and even draft follow-up emails designed to trick employees into transferring funds into accounts controlled by the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has said that it has thwarted an effort to shut down a subscription-based scam platform that relied on an AI chatbot to break into more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts over the course of a few months. The platform, called EvilTokens, first surfaced on a Telegram channel back in February, charging users an initial fee of $1,500 followed by a recurring monthly charge of $500. EvilTokens essentially offered a one-stop service that streamlined nearly every step needed to compromise email accounts at scale. According to the company, once inside, the platform helped its customers sift through victims&#8217; inboxes, identify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038415,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038414\/revisions\/1038415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}