New Trojan Claims To Be Obama "Scandal"

By Digital Trends Staff Updated October 25, 2009

As the race for the Presidency hits its long final furlong and divides America, spammers are using that to try and infect machines. Security company Websense has warned of a new wave of spam that offers a link purporting to show video of Democratic candidate Barack Obama having sex while visiting the Ukraine.

That’s nonsense, of course. The company explains:

“Users who click the link are shown a pornographic video taken from hxxp://homemade*snip*.com/.”

“While the video plays for 14 seconds, malicious applications are installed on the victim’s machine.”

One of those applications allows remote control of the machine, while another is a keystroke logger.

You’ve been warned.

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