Monday, January 12, 2009

Hackers Spread Virus Through Fake CNN E-mails

Leave it to computer hackers to find a way to profit from a war. But hackers are apparently using the Gaza conflict and a fake CNN news site to infiltrate computers and steal passwords.

"Malicious software or malware takes passwords for online banking sites, online shopping carts, e-mail and chat programs and FTP sites and sends them to a computer in the Ukraine," explained Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Read more at examiner.com.

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