BBC: Tony Blair email account hacked!
Filed in: Security — May 9th, 2005
If you receive email with the subject “BBC: Tony Blair email account hacked!”, please be alert. It is a spam email with link to trojan hourse that can steal your passwords.
The email contains a link to a Web site that can infect computers that accessed it with password-stealing Trojan horses, antivirus company Sophos claimed.
“Clicking on the link takes users to a Web site which invisibly installs a Trojan horse on the victim’s computer,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. “This then attempts to install other malicious code onto the infected computer [including] a password stealer which can be used by hackers for grabbing sensitive information.
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