Marcos Christodonte II - Information Security Blog » President Obama http://christodonte.com A few words about information security Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Beware of President Obama Spam! http://christodonte.com/2008/11/beware-of-president-obama-spam/ http://christodonte.com/2008/11/beware-of-president-obama-spam/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:17:55 +0000 Marcos Christodonte II http://christodonte.com/?p=73 According to Sophos Plc., hackers have already launched a “President Obama” malware campaign. This widespread attack claims to provide up-to-date news results about the election. The e-mail message attempts to lure you in by saying “Watch his amazing speech.” However, the link redirects you to a fake news page that presents a download box posed as an Adobe flash player update–supposedly required to view the video.

Sophos also noted that this isn’t the first instance they’ve seen, as hackers have been quite interested in the U.S presidential race.

The full article can be found here.

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