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Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage
by amysheehan Saturday 28-Feb-2009
By John Leyden
The Register
25th February 2009

Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.

The malicious message spread via the Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords.

Full article here: The Register

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