[Non-Political] Obama-themed malware on the rise

[MothBalls]

Within hours of settling the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, spam seen worldwide began incorporating the name and image of Barack Obama, according to various security vendors. The U.K.'s Sophos reported 60 percent of all spam seen by the lab on Wednesday was in some way Obama related.

One piece of spam alleges to contain a link to video of Obama's acceptance speech. If you follow the video link within the e-mail message you will be taken to a Web page where you'll be asked to update your Adobe Flash Player with a file, adobe_flash9.exe, first. This is not an official Adobe update file and downloading this file may in turn infect your computer with a Trojan.

Sophos named the Trojan Mal/Behav-027. F-Secure named it W32/Papras.CL. Sunbelt Software also has a blog about this particular piece of spam.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10083070-83.html

Seems like the hackers are taking advantage..... careful out there.




The funny part of this article (to me anyways) is the comments.

This Obama Trojan isn't stealing your information from your computer....
it's redistributing the wealth of information you have to those less fortunate.

Well, at least this time they are only targeting half the nation!

And luckily it's the half that already knows how to use computers!