4 Aug
It just few days since Philippine Former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino died last Saturday, August 1, 2009 and yet program developers is using this event for their own selfish and illegal activities.
According to TrendMicro Blog, “Cybercriminals use popular and high interest events to further their cause—in this case, spreading fake antivirus software detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_FAKEALRT.FK.”
TrendMicro analyst found that most of the searches for the key phrase like “corazon aquino’s death” may lead internet users to the following websites that may drop a malware on visiting computers.
Big news like this was always used to lauch a massive attacks to scam computer users around the world to obtain and purchase a useless program.
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