Trojan claims PM email compromised.SophosLabs are warning computer users to be wary of an email message that claims that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's email account email account email n → compte m (e-)mail has been hacked. The email message was spammed out to British email addresses during the night of the UK elections. Users who click on the link contained in the email may be infected by a series of Trojan horses It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
steer, tip, wind, hint, lead from infected PCs. The email arrives with the subject line: 'BBC: Tony Blair email account hacked!" and has the message body: BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. : Tony Blair email account hacked! Screenshot See screen shot. is here!' Clicking on the link takes users to a website which invisibly installs a Trojan horse on the victim's computer. This Trojan horse then attempts to install other malicious code onto the infected computer and install a password stealer which can be used by hackers for grabbing sensitive information. The computer underground knew that many in Britain would be following the latest political news and deliberately created a bogus story about Blair's email account being hacked to lure people into clicking on the malicious link. www.sophos.com |
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