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Microsoft disrupted Storm-1152, a cybercrime-as-a-service operation that created and sold millions of fraudulent Microsoft accounts to other threat actors, enabling fraud at a volume that can overwhelm even experienced security teams. Arkose Labs data showed a 167% increase in bot attacks in 2023, a trend the article ties in part to the proliferation of CaaS businesses like Storm-1152 that lower the technical barrier for committing fraud at scale. Arkose Labs worked alongside Microsoft to bring down the group's infrastructure.
