Halloween helps hackers penetrate computers

Sophos has recently discovered a Halloween spam campaign that will attack and direct victims of the news to malicious websites that "carry" dangerous files. Spam emails can be easily identified with Halloween-oriented headlines like 'Happy Halloween' , 'Dancing Bones' , ' The most amazing dancing skeleton ' , ' Shows this to the kids' , 'Send this to your friends' or 'Man this rocks' . According to reports, emails of this type invite users to access a malicious website through which to download a game with skeletal content dancing. But instead of saving files with Halloween content, they are "carrying trojans to the house". The fact that these malicious files will help attackers can take control of the computer from any system with an Internet connection.

" This is just the latest type of attack method through the poisoned e-card (known as Storm) and this method has a pretty big effect ." Experienced technology consultant Graham Cluley said. " It is very dangerous for users to click to see a dancing skeleton, the website will run Vengaboys 'Boom boom boom boom'. However, there is good news that a high-level IT security expert can stop block this deadly attack . "

There's nothing to do but avoid getting Halloween files containing malicious code to protect your system. Avoid clicking on links from messages, emails related to Halloween or from unreliable or unknown sources. In addition, you must regularly update security solutions to always have the latest version against the latest trojans.