Malware Minute: Bin Laden Scams, Malware & Junk

May 10, 2011
GFI Vipre

By GFI Vipre

It goes without saying that the death of Osama Bin Laden has already generated a whole bunch of scams, malware and other junk.

Here’s another one.

Taking a cue from the “Osama shot down” video doing the rounds on Facebook are group pages pushing much the same thing. Example:

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It’s the old “paste this code into your browser” wheeze, although you’d think some of the 4,000+ people who “Liked” this would notice the code includes the word “Owned”.

Oh well.

Here’s the code:

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