Arabella-Cox
May 4, 2011 at 7:35 am

Cybercriminals Using Osama Bin Laden's Death to Spread Malware

Mates, beware when surfing for sensational news, events like mother’s day etc on the web: malware authors use these events to spread botware, trojans and so on.

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201118/7133/Osama-Bin-Laden-related-searches-used-to-push-Malware

http://www.securityweek.com/cybercriminals-using-osama-bin-ladens-death-spread-malware

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1382685/Osama-Bin-Ladens-death-Malware-scammers-target-web-users-searching-news.html

Cheers
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By: Arabella-Cox - 4th May 2011 at 13:49

Thanks mate, here is a similar story from Sophos :

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-so-watch-for-the-spams-and-scams/

Surfing the net is becoming running the gauntlet these days :diablo:

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By: Deano - 4th May 2011 at 12:52

There ya go Ralph, I did it for you 🙂

Too many http’s in the links 😉

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By: Moggy C - 4th May 2011 at 12:42

Links not working, can you sort them please?

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