{"id":985512,"date":"2026-01-16T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985512"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:53:54","slug":"microsoft-disrupts-cybercrime-service-linked-to-ai-enabled-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/microsoft-disrupts-cybercrime-service-linked-to-ai-enabled-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service linked to AI-enabled fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday said it has taken coordinated legal action in the United States and Britain to disrupt a low-cost subscription service called RedVDS that helps cybercriminals carry out lucrative scams. <\/p>\n<p>RedVDS charges as little as $24 monthly for access to disposable virtual computers that enable large-scale fraud that is difficult to trace, according to the company. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Services like these have quietly become a driving force behind today&#8217;s surge in cyber-enabled crime,&#8221; Digital Crimes Unit Assistant General Counsel Steven Masada said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday said it has taken coordinated legal action in the United States and Britain to disrupt a low-cost subscription service called RedVDS that helps cybercriminals carry out lucrative scams. RedVDS charges as little as $24 monthly for access to disposable virtual computers that enable large-scale fraud that is difficult to trace, according to the company. &#8220;Services like these have quietly become a driving force behind today&#8217;s surge in cyber-enabled crime,&#8221; Digital Crimes Unit Assistant General Counsel Steven Masada said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985512","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}