Peaches Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage Oh the humanity By John Leyden Posted in Spam, 25th February 2009 12:40 GMT Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout. The malicious message spread via the Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords. Once extracted from marks these login credentials could be used for a variety of malign purposes ranging from impersonation to identity theft, or simply for sending spam. The motive for the attack is unclear. A San Francisco-based man who reportedly registered the ViddyHo domain, Cam-Hoan Ton-That, may be able to supply some answers, but is yet to be tracked down. Victims were urged to change their passwords before hackers have a chance to abuse their webmail account. The Register article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/gmail_im_phish/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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