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Massive E-Mail Phishing Attack Hits Web
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Oct 07 16:15:33 2009
Massive E-Mail Phishing Attack Hits Web
By Carl Weinschenk, newsfactor.com
Oct 6, 2009
In a situation that may still be developing, major phishing exploits
have hit webmail services over the past few days, including Gmail,
Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL Mail, and others. As usual with mass phishing
attacks -- which aim to trick people into surrendering personal details
about their online identities -- it's unclear what group or groups are
behind the initiatives.
The one thing that is certain is the attacks are big.
"This is on a scale that is incredibly rare," said Mike Halsey, who runs
The Long Climb, a PC support site in the U.K. "I don't think it's ever
happened to this extent before, at least that I'm aware of."
For the rest of the article, see:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20091006/tc_nf/69366
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