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Hackers use fake video of Bhutto assassination to attack

According to ComputerWorld, hackers make use of the breaking news of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to lure users into downloading some malicious code.

The trick is using the search of the word “benazir” on Google, will lead users to some blogs hosted on Blogger.com with blog posts promising users that video of the assassination is available for download. By once, users have downloaded the video clip and try to play with Media Player, it will prompt the users to install a new high-definition video codec, the program that decodes the digital data stream, to view the clip. But actually, there is no such thing so called the video codec. Instead, it’s some kind of malicious code that leads users to download a variant of the Zlob Trojan horse, which is a back door that can infect the compromised PC with a wide range of other malware.

Anyway, I’ve found via the search of my newly added section on TechChee, which I temporarily call it Tech Buzz corner, that there was a video uploaded to Metacafe that has captured the blur scene of the suicide attack tha got Benazir Bhutto assasinated. Hope this video could fulfill your little curiousity, so you wouldn’t search for the video that would mislead you to get your computer hacked!

Note: Tech Buzz corner is a little additional service added to TechChee, which is a one-stop corner for me to keep track of latest hot buzz of the tech world from various hot sources including Digg, StumbleUpon buzz, Reddit, YouTube, MetaCafe, CNN and other tech blogs that I like. It’s still in its very early stage, a very BETA version. I’ll add on more features and will cover a more complete blog post about it and the usage. The current features allow you to view all the hot topics from various sources on the nicely organized panels on the front page and also you can perform search on the search text box.

Source [ComputerWorld], Video source, via [Search of "Bhutto" on TechChee Buzz Corner]

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