From Hoosier Access
Want A Second Chance To Watch O’s Acceptance? Download A Virus!
An email making the rounds apparently offers readers the opportunity to watch O’s acceptance speech by clicking on a link.
The link is not to O’s speech but rather a computer virus that will send your keystrokes to a hacker in Russia. Bye-bye bank accounts and credit cards!
And no this is not one of those hoaxes involving icons that look like teddy bears – the website I read this on is VERY reputable.
Just a friendly heads up to all our liberal trolls out there.
From Websense
Alerts
Obama Interview LureAttackers are sending several variations of malicious email lures throughout the world directing recipients to click on a link to view a video showing an interview with the advisors to the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama or view a portion of his acceptance speech. Clicking on the link directs users to a malicious Web site that infects them with information-stealing malware. In some variations of the email attack cybercriminals are using well-known publishing names such as Time Magazine and La República (Peru) in the email subject line to encourage users to click on the links. Websense Web security and email security customers are protected from these attacks.
“The U.S. election has been closely watched by people worldwide making it an ideal topic to use as a lure by cybercriminals seeking to steal information from unsuspecting victims,” said Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at Websense. “We are seeing many variations of this attack and the numbers of emails are growing by the thousands by the hour.”
Some of the email attacks contain links to a file called ‘BarackObama.exe’ which is hosted on a compromised travel site. The file is an information-stealing Trojan Horse downloader. Upon execution, files called “system.exe” and “firewall.exe” are dropped into the victims’ system directory and a phishing kit is unpacked locally, dropping files bound to startup. The ‘hosts’ file is also modified.
In another variation, victims that click on the link go to a purposely registered domain which advises them to install the latest version of Adobe Flash player before the video can be viewed. The malicious Web site links to a file called ‘adobe_flash.exe’ which is actually a Trojan Horse packed with ASPack. Upon execution, a RootKit is installed on the compromised machine, and the victim’s data is sent to multiple command and control servers.
– AWB
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