If you haven’t seen President-elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech yet but are still interested, find it on the Internet from a reliable source. But whatever you do, don’t fall for the spam flooding inboxes everywhere. Click on the link for an Adobe Flash Player update, and what you’ll really get is malware carrying a Trojan horse that’s going to steal your data, according to an article that ran Friday on WashingtonPost.com.
Besides the message offering a chance to hear the acceptance speech, there are others with subject lines “election results winner” and “the new president’s cabinet?” and “fear of a black president.”
Clinking on the link sends the recipients to an official-looking site, where they’ll be asked to download “adobe_flash9.exe”. Don’t do it–that’s the Trojan horse. (more…)
