Obama site smackdown spam only offers malware
No DDoS! Denied!
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Spam messages offering links to a tool designed to knock out the website of President Obama lead only to dodgy software.
Junk mail ostensibly punting software that allows anti-Obama-ists to become cyberactivists says: "If You don't like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs." Disappointingly, no deeper political reason why a DDoS attack might be justified is offered.
The terse spam message links to a website where prospective marks are offered money for installing the dodgy "packet flinging" tool. The attackers missed a chance to make reference to a recent mass marketing campaign from the White House justifying recent healthcare reforms that some have described as spam as supposedly justifying an "aggressive response", for example.
Visitors to the ropey site punted by the spam are told to come back regularly for updates and warned that security scanner software may come to identify the software on offer as malign, and consign it to quarantine.
That's certainly true, though not for the reasons suggested.
The "DDoS Obama" spam was one theme of a larger spam run, reports email security firm Proofpoint. Other spam messages in the series offered more typical lures, such as pornography, while again pointing to the same malware download.
As Proofpoint helpfully explains, users would be foolhardy to take the description offered by hackers at face value. Leaving aside ethical concerns and potential for prosecution, it's always more likely that any supposed Obama website attack tool would turn compromised machines into spam-relaying zombies than anything else.
"Regardless of your political leanings - installing such software is a really bad idea," Proofpoint concludes.
Proofpoint's point is valid, although it's worth pointing out there is a precedent for DDoS attack tools that volunteers were invited to install. Zionist cyberactivists were offered a tool that did actually throw malign packets at Hamas websites earlier this year, though the same approach might just have easily been used to distribute banking Trojans or spambots, for example. ®
COMMENTS
@Serves the buggers right
It turns out that that woman was a follower of Lyndon LaRouch:
http://washingtonindependent.com/55581/the-larouche-cult-and-the-health-care-protests
"Fake" grass roots?
That's the new mantra. Bush and Cheney are gone, no other nameable target available, so claim the people themselves are phony. It isn't like President "community organizer" Obama and his Chicago posse have ever organized a protest. Everything their supporters do is spontaneous and from the heart.
Bottom line is that Democratic party congressmen with slim majorities know perfectly well that the protesters represent real voters, and they are very worried about it. Organized protests are what political parties do between elections. At elections they organize the turnout. All parties, all countries. The Democrats control both houses of congress, and they can pass anything they can get all the Democrats to agree on. Obama will sign it. Their problem is that they can't get all their own party onside. (No, I am not an American nor a republican.)
Ditto, ditto...
Damn, now my computer is pulsating with all sorts of chicks with large family values prominently bouncing in the wind. Why did my fellow birthers turn on me like this? Gonna have to give that SC Governor a call and see if he can do anything about it, except I keep getting this message that he's in Argentina on some sort of religious retreat.
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