| Bhutto murder used to spread malware |
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| Posted by snarkpup On 12/28/2007 10:23:00 PM CST · 7 replies The Register ^ | 12/28/2007 | John Leyden Malicious JavaScript pushes Trojan Virus writers are exploiting morbid curiosity about the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's to spread malware. Surfers searching for video footage of the suicide attack that killed Bhutto and at least 21 others on Thursday are liable to find malware posing as video clips that attempts to trick users into running malign ActiveX controls. The malicious downloaded file is detected by Symantec as the Emcodec-Trojan. |
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Thank you. I read this on another thread.
True - my security software caught one.