Phishers sneak into Yahoo accounts

Thursday, 26 January 2006, 3:00 PM EST

Phishers are trying to get hold of Yahoo account details by targeting seemingly valueless sections of the site.

Instant messages started to appear this week asking unwitting recipients to check out pictures at an enclosed link. This led to a bogus Yahoo Photos website where users were encouraged to input their account information.

At vnunet.

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