Re: "Sex Scandal" Spam Campaign Targeting US Presidential Election

[n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:11 PM, n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM, n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> "How do we get the attention of the next administration as they are
> coming in?"--Marcus Sachs
>
> "How do we play into the media and get their attention?"--Marcus Sachs
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUPTZVlkyU

This appears to be a false flag operation carried out by the Marcus Sachs clan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

All the best,

n3td3v

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