Phishers angling for Web site administrators

December 5th, 2009 admin

Scam e-mail artists have launched a massive campaign to trick webmasters into giving up the credentials needed to administer their Web sites, targeting site owners at more than 90 online hosting providers. Experts say the attackers are attempting to build a distributed network of hacked sites through which to distribute their malicious software. The spam e-mails arrive addressed to users…


Originally posted on SecurityFix

 
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