Gmail and Hotmail accounts: Phishing claims are wrong

We have some more information on the recent attacks to Hotmail and Gmail accounts as a recent article has claimed that they were not down to ‘phishing’ as stated by both Google and Microsoft.

As reported from ComputerWorld, Mary Landesman, who is a senior security researcher at ScanSafe, thinks that the attacks were actually due to botnets that targeted PCs with keylogging or data stealing Trojan horses.

We told you in our earlier report that over 30,000 accounts were hijacked from the likes of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL in what has to be the biggest scale of hacked mail accounts for some time.

Botnets or Phishing? Either way, it’s a problem that needs to be sorted out you feel. Read the full article over at Computer World, then let us know your thoughts on this.