Hope ur hotmail mail is safe !!!

[anandk]

Hotmail user/s logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information, according to Websense. Websense said this scam is a variant of ransomware, which is a malicious program that encrypts documents on the victim's computer and asks for a payment in order to decrypt the files.

*www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa...h_extortion_scam/0,130061744,339272681,00.htm

David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky UK, said: "Within a corporation, the IT department normally backs up files. The danger is where attacks are launched at smaller businesses (without IT departments) and individuals".

another classic case of ransomware at work !

 

[Third Eye]

Thanks for the info !

 

[phreak0ut]

Common its MS after all

 

[mihirvashist]

Hotmail user/s logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information, according to Websense. Websense said this scam is a variant of ransomware, which is a malicious program that encrypts documents on the victim's computer and asks for a payment in order to decrypt the files.

*www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Hotmail_used_to_launch_extortion_scam/0,130061744,339272681,00.htm

David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky UK, said: "Within a corporation, the IT department normally backs up files. The danger is where attacks are launched at smaller businesses (without IT departments) and individuals".

another classic case of ransomware at work !

don't mind but such ransomwares were around for some time so it is not a new news to me...maybe they appeared on the net on mass scale now and that's why this news is being published now.....well gud for the rest of the members

 

[anandk]

.....well gud for the rest of the members

actually this was meant for the rest of the members ... for those who did not know.

ransomware may be old, mihir...but this hotmail news was posted around an hour back or so only on the net

 

[wizrulz]

thanks for info...bu i am safe....i haev abondoned my hotmail account longback..

 

[ankitsagwekar]

hotmail is safe

i m using hotmail 2 year there is to problem like that
i also read news at zdnet it is user falt hacker not hack hotmail site or mail server
pc in cyber cafe is alreay has spyware so hacker hack outlook

 

[Choto Cheeta]

i wish some one hacks in to my hotmail/rediff/sify account... and takes all emails... i will be glad... why ?? because only emails that come are spams... lol...

 

[QwertyManiac]

i wish some one hacks in to my hotmail/rediff/sify account... and takes all emails... i will be glad... why ?? because only emails that come are spams... lol...

QFT
+1

 

[n2casey]

i wish some one hacks in to my hotmail/rediff/sify account... and takes all emails... i will be glad... why ?? because only emails that come are spams... lol...

U r absolutely right friend. Me too, facing the same prob.
I m afraid, what will happen if someone hacks thinkdigit.com

 

[iMav]

aisa toh kuch bhi nahi hua