Trojans posing as rare Saddam Hussein execution videos
Keeping with their practice of tailoring malware-toting email for current events, malicious users are mass mailing what they claim is a rarely-seen video of the execution of Saddam Hussein.
Researchers at F-Secure have found three Hussein-related malware embedded in the emails, named video_sadan.exe, saddam.morto.scr and sadan.exe. The three files are actually the viruses W32/Banload.BSW, W32/Banload.BSX and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.ACC, according to the Helsinki-based anti-virus firm.
Two of the malware, Banload.BSW and Delf.ACC, open a YouTube page with the search term "enforcado" - the Portuguese word for execution - already entered, according to a post on F-Secure's weblog by Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer.
