The AccountGuard service takes the leap and expands its presence in Europe before the imminent elections in the old continent

The community elections are approaching in Europe (in Spain they will accompany the general, local and in some cases the regional elections) and already We know the situations that society has faced in the latest processes carried out to elect good representatives or carry out a referendum.

We have seen how false news has proliferated (the fashionable fake news) but also attacks on the accounts of some of the most important institutions and leaders at all times.For this reason, companies want to do their part, now that the immediate future of the old continent is at stake at the polls and in the case of Microsoft these measures include offering in Europe the AccountGuard service.

Fearing attacks by hackers and hackers on the accounts of personalities, political parties and in general any organization participating in the process, the American company has opted to Expand its cybersecurity program, which we know as AccountGuard, to 12 European countries.

Microsoft is expanding the AccountGuard service across European countries including France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia and SpainSo far it was available in the US, Canada, Ireland and the UK.

AccountGuard is a service that allows the early detection of threats in all types of accounts and email addresses In the case of appreciating the existence of a possible threat or risk, the system sends an alert to the organization or person affected in the event that they make use of a registered Hotmail.com or Outlook.com account and is associated with said organization.

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The method often goes through the creation of URL addresses that seek to post malicious content as well as fake email addresses but with appearance of being legitimate. The objective is clear: distribute _malware_ that allows access to sensitive data of employees and organizations."

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Hackers and cybercriminals have already shown their power in the French elections, in the Catalan process and now The European Parliament Elections are expected to be a new fronton which they can perform actions."

In fact from Microsoft they report that the activity of these attackers has grown and they have already attacked 104 accounts of people who work for democratic institutions located in different European countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania or Serbia.

Here are the features that AccountGuard offers:

• Best practices and security guidance specific to those in the political space.
• Access to cybersecurity webinars and workshops.
• Notification in the event that the Office 365 account of a participating entity is compromised? or threatened? verifiably by actions of a state.
• notification to the participating entity and, when possible, the affected person if a registered Hotmail account.com or Outlook.com ie associated with the participating entity that compromised? or threatened? in a verifiable manner by actions of a known nation-state.
• Recommendations to participants Entity for remediation if it is confirmed that an account has been compromised.
• A Hotline for the Microsoft Democracy Advocacy Program Team.

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