[HIB]Hackers Eye Instant Messaging Applications

German security experts are cautioning Windows Live Messenger users of a new cyber threat. According to G Data SecurityLabs, a recent increase in phishing sites and spam that direct to the services and an apparently endless bogus friend requests has been observed. The spam e-mails are hitting the inboxes of users all across the world carry subject lines - Silje HUTCHINSON added you as a friend on Windows Live, THEODORA BOUCHER added you as a friend on Windows Live, and the list continues endlessly. The links that are provided in these e-mails take direct users to a software website having a Russian TLD - buy-softwarestore.ru - which promotes unbelievably low priced products. The scammers, through this scam campaign, aims at acquiring the personal information of the users.

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