Obama Related Malware

Hackers and phishers are opportunistic. They quickly take advantages of news events. In many cases that involves a disaster, natural or man-made. This time, the online crime involves the new President:

“…PandaLabs over the weekend reported that its researchers had detected a botnet-driven malware campaign impersonating then President-elect Obama’s Web site. “The fake Web site looks just like the real thing and attempts to bait viewers into clicking a story entitled, ‘Barack Obama has refused to be a president,’ ” wrote PandaLabs security research Sean-Paul Correll in a blog post. “When the user clicks on the link, the malware (W32\Iksmas.A.worm) begins to download all of the necessary files needed to host the fake site on the victim’s computer.”"

link: Fake Obama Web Site Reportedly Builds Botnet

Be careful about what you click, even if it appears to be from a trusted source. Do the security updates and run your protection programs. Don’t be part of a botnet.

Catherine Forsythe