Given the penchant of online scammers to exploit high-visibility events for their own malignant purposes, security experts were unsurprised this week to learn that Myanmar has became a vehicle for planting malware on unsuspecting users of personal computers. The e-mail scam publicized by endpoint security and control firm Sophos uses a Microsoft Word file purportedly originating with His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet to open a back door in a PC and download a malware Trojan. The e-mail containing the infected Word document tries to persuade recipients to open the malicious file.
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Exploiting the Dalai Lama to Spread Malware
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 3, 2007 04:00 AMGiven the penchant of online scammers to exploit high-visibility events for their own malignant purposes, security experts were unsurprised this week to learn that Myanmar has became a vehicle for planting malware on unsuspecting users of personal computers. The e-mail scam publicized by endpoint security and control firm Sophos uses a Microsoft Word file purportedly originating with His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet to open a back door in a PC and download a malware Trojan. The e-mail containing the infected Word document tries to persuade recipients to open the malicious file.