Peaches Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Webmail buggers attack Yahoo!, Hotmail users Gmail phishing assaults spread to MS and Yahoo! Users The high-profile phishing campaign targeting the private Gmail accounts of government officials and political activists is part of a wider pattern of attacks also targeting Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, according to net security firm Trend Micro. Trend said that whether or not the attacks were related, they were all aimed towards bugging webmail accounts. Some of the current wave of assaults against webmail accounts also use techniques designed to find out what sort of security software victims are running as a prelude to deeper running assaults. The initial phase of many of these attacks (include the Gmail assault) is a targeted email redirecting users to a fake site designed to con users into handing over their login credentials. Once accounts have been compromised, the attacker surreptitiously changes webmail settings in order to send emails to a drop account under their control Read more here: http://www.theregist...webmail_attack/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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