'Hillary Clinton Full Video' Screams Malware Infested Emails
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 02/19/2008
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Spam emails claiming to contain video reports on the US election as a lure to download malicious software are bombarding computers worldwide.
The malware onslaught has been spotted by security experts
at McAfee, who detected a rise in US elections-themed spam since the
Super Tuesday primaries, which took place on 15 February 2008.
The spam emails have the subject heading "Hillary Clinton Full Video
!!!" and contain the message: "Hillary Clinton visited her campaign
headquarters in Virginia and did satellite interviews, looking beyond
Tuesday's trio of contests and touting the importance of a March 4 vote
in Ohio".
Clicking the link doesn't take you to a video showing Clinton on the
campaign trail, but redirects your browser to a malicious URL that
infects your computer with malware.
The attack is suspected to originate from the notorious Russian Business Network, one of the world's biggest cybercrime organisations and operators of the infamous Storm botnet.
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