Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Scam emails are getting better at looking official. This one claims to be an urgent warning from Microsoft about your email account. It looks serious. It feels time sensitive. And that is exactly the ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

PCWorld reports that scammers are exploiting a legitimate Microsoft email address, [email protected], to send convincing phishing emails to users. This compromised address typically handles official ...

Your two-factor authentication codes and security alerts come from trusted Microsoft addresses-which makes this breach particularly dangerous. For several months, scammers have exploited a loophole ...

Threat actors are abusing misconfigured MX records and weak DMARC/SPF policies to make phishing emails look internal, bypassing filters and increasing credential theft risk. Microsoft’s Threat ...

I previously thought that hackers had taken things up a notch by using generative AI to breach sensitive data — but the reality is far worse. In a damning report by TechCrunch, scammers have been ...