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Fwd: "Sex Scandal" Spam Campaign Targeting US Presidential Election
From: n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:48:53 +0100
Is Marcus Sachs responsible? Websense(R) Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered an emerging email campaign which uses the US presidential election as a social engineering mechanism to install information-stealing code on a victim's machine. With less than 2 months before the start of the election, emails are circulating with fake news of a sex scandal affecting one of the candidates. Recipients of the email are encouraged to view a video supposedly involving the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Users who click the link are shown a pornographic video taken from hxxp://homemade*snip*.com/. While the video plays for 14 seconds, malicious applications are installed on the victim's machine. Screenshot of example email: http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3177.aspx _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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