Yup, the recent Haiti earthquake as well. Since it's a business whether it's an automated or human-triggered, any unfortunate event will trigger to this kind of threat.
Google also mentioned this in their blog: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/04/rise-of-fake-anti-virus.html On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM, David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:10:25PM +0800, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Recent death of Polish President was exploited by malware writers: >> >> http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2010/04/12/fakeav-takes-advantage-of-president.aspx > > This is very much in keeping with their usual behavior. I suspect > that at least some of them use news feeds to generate enticing > headlines automatically. > > Cheers, > David. > -- > David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > _______________________________________________ > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > _______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
