Spam on Hotmail Today?


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Is anybody getting sent chained spammed links on Hotmail today from friends (or ex-friends)? I don't normally care with these things, but my hotmail account hasn't had a new email in years (except Hotmail announcements). So far today, I've had 3 of these all from people who do not know each other.

Is this new malware in the wild or has hotmail had a bad day? I'm going to change my Hotmail password in case it is me though I've been running Ubuntu for over a year.

The links all end with /ofmgo.html - I've opened one in a console based browser and the javascript looks a bit nasty.

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Ah right, thats OK. I thought my idle hotmail account had been compromised. Still though, gonna change the password.

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I've got this problem as well- a friends hotmail account sent my hotmail account a link earlier today. I didn't open it (only saw it from my phone and marked it as read), but now my account is sending the link as well. It doesn't show up in my sent folder but I did get two delivery failure notifications to other contacts. Oddly enough, my friend who originally sent me the link only checks his account from Windows Phone, not even sure he has/uses a computer.

It only goes to other hotmail accounts. Same links though, something random ending in "ofmgo"

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