
Microsoft leads takedown of Tycoon2FA phishing service infrastructure
The infrastructure hosting the Tycoon2FA service, which Europol said was among the largest phishing operations worldwide, has been taken down by a coalition of IT companies and law enforcement agencies. At least temporarily, this removes access to one more tool for evading multifactor authentication defenses from threat actors. Europol, which coordinated the operation, said Wednesday that the technical disruption was led by Microsoft, which got a US court order to seize 330 active domains that powered Tycoon2FA’s core infrastructure, including its control panels and fraudulent login pages. At the same time, law enforcement in Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom...