Microsoft’s Outlook.com faces brief man-in-the-middle attack in China

Microsoft’s Outlook.com briefly faced a “man-in-the-middle” attack in China, according to a watchdog group, following similar eavesdropping attempts against Apple and Yahoo last year.

The group, GreatFire.org, noticed the attack against Outlook on Saturday for users attempting to visit the service through mobile and desktop email clients.

Accessing the service, prompted users to see warning messages, stemming from the service failing to return a trusted digital certificate, according to GreatFire.org.

Man-in-the-middle attacks work by trying to eavesdrop on the user’s communications. This is typically done when a hacker impersonates a service the user is hoping to visit in an attempt to intercept the victim’s login and password information.

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