Malware spread by My.BarackObama.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Author: Webmaster

My.BarackObama.com is being used by hackers to trick users into downloading a Trojan horse.

The hackers have set up bogus accounts and used them to create blogs. When a user reaches one of the fake blogs, a video window is displayed. Clicking on that video frame takes the user to a malicious website packed with porn.

If the user clicks to view the porn, a message pops up prompting for a video codec to be downloaded and installed. The executable file is not a codec, but rather a Trojan that infects the machine.

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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126801


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