![]() This is one of the reasons why this campaign is ongoing and doesn’t look like it will be slowing down anytime soon.Ī Canadian also had a similar story to tell: This is one of multiple stories we have seen that show those behind these attacks are using hijacked accounts to heavily spam others. They were – like the scenario in mine- from people who probably had an email from me in their in box even though I wasn’t in their address book. Other reason I suspect it’s not fixed (and not just me) is that the spam filter for this account (my work email) picked up at least two other yahoo spams like mine at the same time. Their only connection was messages in the domain-hosted in box. I know this because some recipients were people that were not in my address book and wouldn’t have even known about the yahoo account to ever have sent anything to the yahoo account. So whatever the hack was, they were able to connect the dummy yahoo account to the hosted domain account. Also, the spam that went out was to people who had sent messages to my hosted domain name – not the yahoo account (even though the message they received was FROM my yahoo account). That’s why I feel so certain that the hack had to have been on the yahoo-side. Yahoo hosts my domain for another e-mail address and I never send/receive using the yahoo email address. These are scammers attempting to get a ransom payment in exchange for an account they have compromised.Īnother story comes from a Yahoo user who wants to simply be known as “someone in California”:Īctually, my yahoo account is a dummy account. It’s fair to say that this number in question does not belong to Yahoo. Both times we called when we refused the payment of $100 we were hung up on. We called the number twice, the first time we spoke with a woman and the second time we called we spoke with a man. There was a toll free number to call and when we did so we spoke with people who spoke very poor English, and they asked for a one time fee of $100 for assistance with the issue. Not only did it spam the entire “contact” folder, but we are unable to send out e-mails or access our “secret question” to change the password. We just had another yahoo account hacked yesterday. ![]() They spammed everyone in the “contact” folder and deleted all the contacts. The first one comes from a Yahoo user who is part of a larger organization: These individuals only learned about the incident from contacts who received shady emails from them.īelow are three excerpts from what Yahoo users have been telling us about these attacks. Yet many insist they never got such an email or click on such a link: their accounts were simply hijacked out of the blue. The bit.ly URL that is included (we’re not linking it here for obvious reasons) redirects to a fake MSNBC page that reportedly hijacks your Yahoo Mail account immediately if you are logged in. Reports were mixed: some said they got an email and clicked the link, some said they got the email but didn’t click, and others said they never got such an email.Īmongst those that did click on a link, however, there was at least one aspect that recently seems to corroborate: the attackers have apparently been referencing a non-existent MSNBC news report in the email. We asked the users who got in touch with us if they got such an email and clicked on the link. Some say their hijacked accounts send emails to select individuals, others report they get sent to all their contacts, and one even noted that they went out to “anyone I had ever received and/or sent a message to.” Attacks typically consist of Yahoo users receiving an email from a friend or colleague (and sometimes a completely unknown party) containing a link that if clicked on, results in the account being hijacked.
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