Malware exploiting Obama's popularity

By Praveen Edburg | Monday, November 10, 2008


The newest elected US president may have become very popular in the worldwide very quickly but even the hackers have exploited this popularity to create a new malware in name of Obama.

It is actually a trojan horse that is sent to user's emails suggesting that it is a video containing Obama's speech. It claims to be the adobe flash video and some plug-ins but is actually a .exe file and can infect user's computers when they try to download the file and play it. The malware is said to steal user informations such as passwords leading to identity theft.






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