Barack Obama site hosting trojan
President Obama supporters wanting to view videos made by other fans of the newly inaugurated leader might soon find themselves infected with a virus.
Researchers said this week that malicious individuals have been creating bogus accounts at my.barackobama.com, a social networking site where supporters of Obama can interact and create their own blogs.
The fraudsters are embedding fake YouTube videos into their blogs, according to a Monday blog post from Websense. Attempting to play the video redirects users to another website, where they are notified that they must download a codec to view the video. Agreeing to download the codec actually initiates the installation of a trojan.
