Taking advantage of the Virginia massacre spreads malware

Spammers and hackers are taking advantage of the horrific massacre at Virginia Tech University (USA) as bait for computer users to spread malware.

The warning was made by security experts on April 19, after which after the video of the assassin named Cho Seung-hui was posted on websites and YouTube.com, a wave of spam had links. to a dangerous website in Brazil was also released from the evening of April 18.

If clicking on the link above, the victim computer will immediately download a malicious screensaver software named " TERROR_EM_VIRGINIA.scr " (named by Sophos), and will install a Trojan program to collect information. Trust the user's bank account. However, it is still unclear which bank program was created to collect bank account information.

Also, according to Sophos, the Trojan-attached e-mails don't seem to be an English speaker because their language is Portuguese. However, in recent times, "hot" news events are often used by hackers to spread malicious programs.