[pchelpers] News:MyBarackObama profile hack punts malware

Inaugural Trojan
By John Leyden 
Posted in Security, 27th January 2009 18:56 GMT

Virus authors are exploiting a website associated with President Barack
Obama in order to distribute a Trojan.

The new president's use of Web 2.0 technologies is being misused in a
fake video codec scam centered around My.BarackObama.com, an online
community for supporters of the new president.

Web security firm Websense reports that malicious hackers have
registered multiple bogus user accounts on My.BarackObama.com. The site
allows legitimate punters to join groups, raise funds, or creates blogs.
The griefers have established blogs with fake YouTube clips, ostensibly
offering grumble flicks.

Prospective marks are told they need a video codec to watch these clips
which - you've guessed it - are loaded with a Trojan.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/myobama_malware_scam/
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