Spam Trojan Hits Yahoo and Hotmail Users Hard
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PCPro has reported that BitDefender has learned that tens of thousands of Yahoo and Hotmail users accounts have been hijacked to send spam messages.
The malware not only generates new webmail accounts automatically but has also found a way around the anti-spam CAPTCHA system, which requires people to enter the letters depicted in an image.
The trojan reportedly accesses the webmail account, pulls encrypted spam messages from another website, decrypts them and then sends them out to legitimate email addresses. The messages send users to a site selling pharmacy products.
[New spam trojan hits Hotmail and Yahoo]
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