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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA Listmaster

NRT-0609 New malware‑carrying spam offers link to video of candidate:

Internet monitoring firms have detected a massive spam campaign that lures potential victims with a link purported to contain salacious video content of presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to an online press report. Internet users who follow the link are shown a 14‑second video, while malicious applications are being installed on the victim's machine, according to Internet‑monitoring company Websense.

The malware consists of a Trojan that allows remote control of the user's computer using an application called 809.exe in the user's Temporary Internet Files folder. The Trojan also installs a Browser Helper Object that steals keystrokes and forwards them to a server controlled by the malware distributors.

[vnunet.com 10Sep08]

Last Modified: Thursday, 09-Oct-2008 07:33:46 EDT