Spammers use 'Obama' emails to load trojans
Online miscreants are riding the coat-tails of US President-elect Barack Obama, with security companies reporting a flood of new Obama-related malware and spam.
The spam messages - which started even before Obama had the chance to give his victory speech - promise new video clips of "amazing" Obama speeches, fresh interviews and election results, but instead users are hit with a virus that will compromise their personal data.
A scan of the virus at Virustotal.com found only 14 out of 36 anti-virus products detected the file as hostile, The Washington Post reported. "The ticker tape from Barack Obama's celebratory party has probably not even been swept up yet, but the hackers have wasted no time in launching a malware campaign," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, wrote in a blog post.
