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New Wave of Email Attacks   - Monday, January 11, 2010 at 10:25

There is a new wave of email-based attacks centering on OWA (Outlook Web Access) accounts, which are taking on a personal appearance.

According to the scam, the emails start with, We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox [redacted] settings were changed. In order to apply... the new set of settings click on the following link:

The emails will use the victims email domain as part of the link to the malicious site hosting the settings updates. In addition, the actual email domain is used consistently within the email message and the fake update site.

This is a known as phishing scam and should be deleted.

More on phishing scams is available at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing




 
 

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