Hackers Exploit Brittany Murphy’s Death To Distribute Scareware
The news of Brittany Murphy' death is exploited by cyber criminals to spread fake antivirus software popularly called 'scareware.'
On December 20, 2009, the American actress suffered a heart attack at 0800 Pacific Time (1600GMT). Within few hours of death, F-Secure researchers in Finland said that cyber criminals were 'poisoning' search engines results to target people looking for information about the actress death. The search results produced pages that specially contained scareware.
Notably, in addition to F-Secure, Websense and McAfee, the other security companies, have also reported similar scams.
