New Fake Hotmail Phishing Scam On Action

Watch out for new Type of Hotmail Spam Attack

I just received new spam message from one of my Hotmail contact (My friend), it’s with new type of message and most of people could be fall into it so watch out.

 

The message looks like:

 

Subject : Hii

Content :

 

???? I don’t know what is that mean.

 

Finally the trapped link that included in the message is redirecting the victims to another website and its asking for the username and the password :

 

 

When you insert your information, the site will spam and steal the information from you and all your contacts, so be careful.

 

 

Microsoft Confirms Hotmail Phishing Attack

 

 

Microsoft has confirmed that Hotmail customers were hit by a phishing attack, resulting in the release of thousands of passwords online.

 

Last Thursday, an anonymous user posted details of over 10,000 accounts – with addresses starting with the letters A or B – on a developer site.

 

Although the precise cause of the leak is still unclear, Microsoft said that once it had learned of the issue, it requested that the credentials were removed and launched an investigation.

 

A spokesperson said in a statement: “As part of that investigation, we determined that this is not a breach of any Microsoft servers.”

 

The statement added: “Subsequently we are taking measures to block access to all of the accounts that were exposed and have resources in place to help those users reclaim their accounts.”

 

Microsoft also said that phishing was an industry wide problem, and advised users to keep anti-virus software up to date as well as renew passwords every 90 days.

 

IT security firm Sophos said that users of Microsoft’s online services should change their passwords, and the fact that the accounts began with A or B suggested that it could be the “tip of the iceberg”.

 

“My recommendation for users of Microsoft’s online services is to change your passwords immediately,” said Sophos senior security advisor Chester Wisniewski in a statement.

 

“You are better to be safe than sorry, and password rotation is something we are often to lazy to do,” he added.

 

By Asavin Wattanajantra from itpro.co.uk

 

Adding Photos To Hotmail Messages – A Temporary Change

Have you noticed that you can no longer add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message the way you used to? It’s been temporarily removed, here’s why:

 

During a recent review, we identified an incompatibility with Internet Explorer that caused a security flaw with photo uploads, and we made the decision to temporarily remove the feature. The Hotmail team takes security very seriously and we expect to bring back the photo upload feature by the end of September. In the meantime, you can still add pictures as attachments to your Hotmail messages, by clicking Attach, and then File, and then selecting the picture you want to include.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you until this fix is complete.

The Windows Live team

Adding photos to Hotmail messages – a temporary change

 

Sly Spam Run Targets Hotmail Users

Hotmail users need to be wary about a malicious spam run that specifically targets users of the said webmail.

 

Senior Security Analyst Rik Ferguson reports that spam messages arrive with text indicating that it has file attachments that are image files with the JPEG format. In truth however, the file names of attachments are actually links that connect to shortened URLs, which in turn connect to malicious URLs.

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