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I have received several emails from "the Microsoft Account Team": some stating that someone attempted to login to my account from Moscow/Russia, and this one saying someone attempted to change my password. I checked my account security, but it didn't show any suspicious login activity.
If you get an email from Microsoft account team and the email address domain is @accountprotection.microsoft.com, it is safe to trust the message and open it. Microsoft uses this domain to send email notifications about your Microsoft account.
You can also report this email as a phishing email and identify if the email is from Microsoft security team by the header of the email. Can I trust email from the Microsoft account team? - Microsoft Support
Thanks for your post in Microsoft Community. It looks like you received an email from a suspected Microsoft team warning you that your account is at risk. It's commendable that you are wary of the authenticity of this email in the first place! Based on the content of the email you provided, this email is most likely a spam or phishing email ...
The easiest way to identify a legitimate Microsoft account team email is to look at the email address domain. If a message comes from an address with the @accountprotection.microsoft.com suffix, then it’s probably an authentic message.
How do I know this is a genuine email from Microsoft and not a scam, especially the sender has an address *** Email address is removed for privacy *** when I hovered over the name: Microsoft Account Team.
The quickest way is to check the activity on your account to see if there was a log in that matches what is contained in the email message. https://account.live.com/Activity. If there wasn't anything unexpected, the email message is a phishing scam.