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Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and more disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ organizations in 2026

In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages …

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Microsoft, Health-ISAC, Japanese authorities, and more disrupt a Chinese-language phishing kit ecosystem used to send 1B+ messages to 75K+ organizations in 2026

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