Looks like Google and Microsoft (Hotmail) are getting smacked by the HotLan trojan now, which evidently is finding a way around the captcha system they have in place to stop automated email account creation.
From this article:
According to Viorel Canja, head of BitDefender Antivirus Lab, around 514,000 Hotmail accounts were created as of last Friday, as well as about 49,000 Gmail accounts.
And this:
“However, it is worth noting that while most of the Hotmail accounts are operational, Gmail accounts get blocked pretty fast, usually about a couple of days after being created,” said Canja.
Not sure whether to laugh at MS or feel their pain, since they had 514,000 versus 49,000 for Google. But that also begs the question of why Hotmail got hit so much harder. Was it poor security or just the fact that they are Hotmail?
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