{"id":13009,"date":"2026-05-20T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/cybercrime-service-disrupted-for-abusing-microsoft-platform-to-sign-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:04:28","slug":"cybercrime-service-disrupted-for-abusing-microsoft-platform-to-sign-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/cybercrime-service-disrupted-for-abusing-microsoft-platform-to-sign-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercrime service disrupted for abusing Microsoft platform to sign malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Cybercrime service disrupted for abusing Microsoft platform to sign malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Microsoft says it has disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that abused the company&#8217;s Artifact Signing service to generate fraudulent code-signing certificates used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cybercrime-service-disrupted-for-abusing-microsoft-platform-to-sign-malware\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercrime service disrupted for abusing Microsoft platform to sign malware Microsoft says it has disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that abused the company&#8217;s Artifact Signing service to generate fraudulent code-signing certificates used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-13009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}