Virus writers claim Blair's email account was hacked

Cybercriminals claimed on Friday that the Prime Minister's email account has been hacked, in the latest attempt to attack PCs with malware. On the same day Tony Blair won a third term in government, a spam message was sent out stating that malicious hackers had penetrated his email account.

The email contains a link to a Web site that can infect computers that accessed it with password-stealing Trojan horses, antivirus company Sophos claimed. "Clicking on the link takes users to a Web site which invisibly installs a Trojan horse on the victim's computer," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "This then attempts to install other malicious code onto the infected computer [including] a password stealer which can be used by hackers for grabbing sensitive information.