Administrator DKT27 Posted October 12, 2009 Administrator Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hacked Web mail accounts used to send spamThere has been a marked increase in the amount of spam e-mails being sent from Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail accounts, according to analysts at Websense Security Labs.Websense said on Thursday that personalized spam e-mails had been sent from the compromised accounts to all of each user's contacts. The e-mails 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.However, some security experts believe that the password breach cannot be attributed to phishing. Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer for security firm Imperva, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the information was likely to have been obtained through key logging."The quantity of people hit makes me think that it was key logging--the success rate for phishing is only about one in 1,000," said Shulman. "Secondly, when I went through the list of email account credentials...Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Obvious :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 12, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted October 12, 2009 Of course it's obvious but have you checked some important points? Like - 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.However, some security experts believe that the password breach cannot be attributed to phishing. Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer for security firm Imperva, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the information was likely to have been obtained through key logging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 ^-- Yea so, It's old news that accounts are getting hacked through key logging.. People just have to be more careful about the things they do with their pc :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 13, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted October 13, 2009 ANW did you downloaded the latest version of KeyScrambler that I had posted? I and my friend recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 ANW did you downloaded the latest version of KeyScrambler that I had posted? I and my friend recommend it.Nice tip, got to tell some friends who are kinda dumb when it comes to pc's :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 13, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted October 13, 2009 Well you never know when you are infected by a keylogger. Till date I have been infected by 3 keyloggers. And let me tell you I'm not a foolish person to allow any keyloggers easily. You will find that the accounts that are posted online must have some security expert's names also. They are binded so well that no AV or AM would detect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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