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Bin Laden's Death Being Used To Spread Malware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

wiredmikey writes "Following the successful operation by US forces to kill Osama bin Laden, Internet users are searching in the masses for any details about the incident they can find. Cyber-criminals know this and have already been at work to 'poison' common search results hoping to gain access to people's computers and infect them with malware."

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  1. Yep - got me by cpu6502 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Was searching for Bin Laden news, found a program called "Fox Tab" in the search results, and discovered this PDF creation tool was actually a trojan.
    Dang.
    (thought "open source" was supposed to be safe, but I guess not.)

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