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Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)
It beggars belief that anyone would think that they’d first hear of World War III through a spam email. But hackers are relying on such credulous fools in an attempt to spread a new Trojan.
Widely spammed emails with subject lines including “Third World War has begun”, “20000 US Soldiers in Iran”, and “US Army crossed Iran’s borders” link to a website displaying what poses as a video player displaying the mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb and text on a supposed US invasion of Iran. Attempts to play the “clip” on a Windows PC result in infection by the Tibs-UO Trojan.
