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Obama-themed malware mauls world+dog

Iamfanboy

How long til we see "Obama assassinated" used? 

I get the feeling THAT title would have brought in a shitton more punters than merely showing his acceptance speech.....

Anonymous Coward

In a year... 

Flame

...we'll have a repeat article with the word "malware" replaced with "presidency" and "world+dog" replaced with "global economy".

Mowds

More intelligent... 

...than my spam, which claims that, amongst other things, Obama is a woman and McCain has been spotted nude in public.

Franklin

Most interesting thing about this attack... 

Stop

...is the private network of name servers the miscreants have built to serve up the attack web sites, at least one of which was living for a time on a pwn3d box living in US military IP space.

Http://tacit.livejournal.com/267827.html

Http://tacit.livejournal.com/264955.html

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