According to McAfee, Microsoft’s Live SkyDrive file sharing service, previously known as Windows Live Folders, have been under spam attack. Apparently spammers have found the way to hide spam URLs into hosted html files. Reason why SkyDrive pages are attached is simply that it is a trusted Microsoft domain and offer of 1GB of file space with no monthly costs. McAfee predicts that the spam link will transform into any one of a number of redirect scams in the near future if left alone. Question is how long will this obviously weak Microsoft’s service last since it has strong competition including Google?

Halifax website for managing money online transfers has been phished yesterday. The IP address of the site was changing every second and as analyzes reports that some of random IPs were addresses to sites such as hellosanta2008.com. postcards-2008.com, which suggest this attach can be Storm. As Data Security reported there were evidences of Storm variations using unique security keys. The unique keys will allow the botnet to be segmented allowing “space for rent”. It looks as if the Storm gang is preparing to sell access to their botnet.