Hackers use US presidential election for malware campaign
Filed under: Computers | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
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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The attackers wasted no time on this virus flood. The election ended November 4 at 11 PM EST. This “headline spam” attack started on our servers the next day. I am sure a “McCain” attack was also queued up in case he won. The spammers are probably agnostic on the topic of American politics. They only wanted any famous person for the headline.
http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf/d6plinks/FPAO-7L5J9B