Hackers use US presidential election for malware campaign

There are many of us who thought that yesterday’s US presidential election was a great time for us, but think again as we could now face a serious malware campaign. Hackers have seized information, and are now about to launch a major malware campaign.

The campaign tries to trick a user into installing an update for Adobe Flash, but what you get instead is a Trojan horse on a PC that is not protected by a security program. The malware campaign originated from spam messages that were advising us that Barack Obama had won the U.S. Presidential Election.

In the message is a link, that looks as though it will take you to a website showing you the election results. Once you click on the link, you are then sent to a fake site that’s tells you that you need to install the Adobe Flash update.

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