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Hackers Use Putin Death Hoax to Spread Virus

posted onJuly 13, 2006
by hitbsecnews

A new spam campaign that poses as a breaking news report about the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin is actually an attempt by hackers to infect computer users with a Trojan, SC Magazine online daily reports.

The spam emails have the subject line ?ATTENTION!!! President of Russia has died? and a link to more information on the subject.

Embedded in this spam is a hidden script that exploits the ADODB.Stream vulnerability in Internet Explorer to secretly download the malicious Dloadr-ZP trojan from a Russian website. The trojan is designed to download a more malicious code which allows hackers to gain access to the victim?s computer.

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