Spokesmen from Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com are warning of an increase in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it is tracking as Storm-0539 for directing gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attacks is to propagate booby-trapped links that direct victims to Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing pages that can harvest their credentials and session tokens