Known malicious kitcriticalphishing

Microsoft 365 'Outage Notification' e-mails sent through SendGrid from re-purposed old domains, landing behind a decoy-blog cloaker

family: m365-outage-sendgrid-themelist-2026-11

E-mails styled as Microsoft 365 service-health notices, with subjects such as 'Outage - <six-character code>', sender names ending in 'Outage Notification' or 'Service Health' and a reference to an Exchange Online incident number, sent to organisations in the United States from 12 November 2026. Each recipient gets a personal SendGrid click-tracking link on a branded host of the sending domain (for example url2830.planetmaison[.]com or url7489.newbooker[.]com), which forwards to reallifeaccounting[.]com. The sending domains are long-registered names that changed hands shortly before use: between 3 and 12 November each was moved to new name servers and given its own SendGrid sender authentication and the same mail-forwarding setup, with no website: moments-notice[.]com, planetmaison[.]com, newbooker[.]com, cityofbernie[.]com, kioskcom[.]com, batobin[.]com, scchapman[.]com, networkformer[.]com, socialistappeal[.]org, fantastika[.]org, cat315[.]com, ocmarketplace[.]com, downmode[.]com, mysuccessfulfuture[.]com, flyingbiscuitcafeatlanta[.]com, sheincustomerservice[.]com, cojesc[.]net, enjoyhsu[.]com and tongwork[.]com. The landing domain, also a long-registered name re-pointed on 10 November, shows a visitor it does not want, such as a scanner or a sandbox, a generated decoy blog instead of the lure: a made-up magazine name, stock photos, filler articles named themelist0.html, themelist1.html and so on, a phone-number form, and a small script that reports back whether the visitor runs JavaScript. The same decoy generator also fronted an OpenSea look-alike, 0pensea-lo.shared-smart[.]com, in early November.

Anchors

Hunting ruleThemeList_Cloaker_WhitePage
SMQL queryrun
domain:reallifeaccounting.com OR contacted_host:reallifeaccounting.com OR contacted_host:www.reallifeaccounting.com OR contacted_host:url.cityofbernie.com OR contacted_host:url2496.cityofbernie.com OR contacted_host:url.newbooker.com OR contacted_host:url147.newbooker.com OR contacted_host:url7489.newbooker.com OR contacted_host:url.planetmaison.com OR contacted_host:url2830.planetmaison.com OR domain:*.cityofbernie.com OR domain:*.newbooker.com OR domain:*.planetmaison.com OR domain:*.moments-notice.com

Provenance

Added: 2026-11-14 16:54
The hunting rule keys on the decoy's own code: the script that requests a random base-36 token followed by the path of the page's first image, and the template's animation and anchor scaffolding. It uses no site name, article text or hostname, so it finds the same decoy on any domain. A decoy blog on such a domain does not mean the site is harmless: a recipient who arrives through a personal link can be shown something else. The search adds the landing domain and the branded click-tracking hosts. Check a reported Microsoft 365 outage under Service health in the Microsoft 365 admin center, not through a link in the e-mail. If you entered a password after such an e-mail, change it, sign out of all sessions and review the account's recent sign-in activity.

Sightings (7)Atom feed

HostScanScriptMatchScanned
url.planetmaison.com3d81341c…—query2026-11-14 16:50
url7489.newbooker.com81437dcd…—query2026-11-14 16:50
reallifeaccounting.com550ad635…https://reallifeaccounting.com/#htmlrule2026-11-14 16:35
reallifeaccounting.com550ad635…—query2026-11-14 16:35
reallifeaccounting.comcb9981c9…https://reallifeaccounting.com/themelist0.html#htmlrule2026-11-14 16:35
reallifeaccounting.comcb9981c9…—query2026-11-14 16:35
0pensea-lo.shared-smart.com6413ea08…https://0pensea-lo.shared-smart.com/#htmlrule2026-11-01 12:20