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They've 'whacked' Bin Laden


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Got him in a 'Villa' just outside Islamabad, Pakistan =D>

 

EDIT: Sorry, this belongs in the Lounge, but I now see Supersonic101 has just broken the news there. Suggest all leave this thread alone & chat at SS101's thread!

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Excerpted from: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/osama-bin-laden-death-leads-to-hoard-of-digital-storage-being-discovered-as-warnings-made-of-online-scams/article/201994/

 

"Bin Laden's death has also led to warnings on malicious search results and files being detected. F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said that the first sample of malware about the death of Osama bin Laden was a file called Fotos_Osama_Bin_Laden.zip that was spreading via email that contains an executable file that contains a banking Trojan belonging to the Banload family.

 

Hypponen said: "It will install itself on the system (as msapps\msinfo\42636.exe) and starts to monitor your online banking sessions (via a browser helper object), trying to redirect your payments to wrong accounts. We detect this one as Trojan-Downloader:W32/Banload.BKHJ.

 

"As a general advice: it's unlikely you'll find pictures or videos of bin Laden's death online, but searching for one will certainly take you to sites with malware."

 

Websense Security Labs noted that the news on bin Laden superseded malicious searches for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding. In an interesting tactic, the blog of Pakistan-based Twitter user Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual) was compromised as he 'live tweeted' during the attack.

 

Patrik Runald, senior manager of security research at Websense Security Labs, said: "Make no mistake, hackers are going to go after websites such as Athar's along with search engine results to prey on visitors looking for more information."

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