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Hacked web mail accounts used to send spam
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Mon Oct 12 10:15:43 2009
Hacked web mail accounts used to send spam
Carly Newman ZDNet UK
Oct 9, 2009
news.zdnet.co.uk
There has been a marked increase in the amount of spam emails being sent
from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail accounts, according to analysts at
Websense Security Labs.
Websense said on Thursday that personalised spam emails had been sent
from the compromised accounts to all of each user's contacts. The emails
contain links to fake shopping sites, intended to capture sensitive
information from the reader.
Earlier this week, Microsoft acknowledged that 30,000 Hotmail accounts
had breached, and suggested the passwords for the accounts had been
obtained in a phishing scam.
For rest of the article, see:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39798338,00.htm?tag=mncol;txt
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