Computer Security - Has Barack Obama refused to be president? No, it's malware!

01-19-2009, 11:35 PM

As described by Richard Cohen on the SophosLabs blog, this weekend saw a
major malicious spam campaign posing as news that Barack Obama was
refusing to become President of the United States.

There are many versions of the email using different subject lines and
linking to a variety of different websites. Subject lines have included
"It is amazing!", "What will be with our country?", "Haven't you heard
latest news about our president-elect?", "End-time for USA", and "Who
will be our president now?". Here is one example of an email sent by the
hackers:

See Graham Cluley's blog
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/200...sed-president/

John D

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01-19-2009, 11:35 PM	#1
	Has Barack Obama refused to be president? No, it's malware! As described by Richard Cohen on the SophosLabs blog, this weekend saw a major malicious spam campaign posing as news that Barack Obama was refusing to become President of the United States. There are many versions of the email using different subject lines and linking to a variety of different websites. Subject lines have included "It is amazing!", "What will be with our country?", "Haven't you heard latest news about our president-elect?", "End-time for USA", and "Who will be our president now?". Here is one example of an email sent by the hackers: See Graham Cluley's blog http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/200...sed-president/ John D