Phishing Attempts Made on Microsoft Outlook Users

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Phishing_Attempts_Made_on_Microsoft_Outlook_Users/551-102831-582.html

Techtree News Staff, Jun 04, 2009 1813 hrs IST

The phishing message carries an email address with name Support

Phishing attacks have often been launched on the social networking sites
Facebook
, Myspace and number of others. Now, the hackers have started
launching phishing attacks to email accounts. Sarah Calaunan, fraud
analyst at security solution
provider Trend Micro,
wrote
 on the company's official
blog
 that phishing attacks targeting Microsoft Outlook were reported.


The new phishing attack targets Microsoft Outlook users by sending
them alert to re-configure their Outlook. On clicking, the user is
lead to a phishing
site with name Microsoft.com with something in prefix where in his
login credentials are asked. This is dangerous since the phishing
message carries an
email address with name Support and thus, many users might fall for the trap.

Do not fall for such traps and in case you find any message in your
Micrsooft Outlook folder, delete it immediately.

The attack will only be successful when user commits the mistake of
entering his login credentials on the phishing site. Later, the hacker
would be able
to steal critical information.



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