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Banking Trojan hides in fake Alonso F1 crash story
Fabricated news of a supposed car accident involving Formula One star Fernando Alonso is being used to distribute a new banking Trojan.
The fake news story, supposedly from Spanish daily El Pais, has two-time motor racing champion seriously injured on Tuesday in an accident in the norther city of Bilbao. The bogus story, distributed via spam emails, links to a video clip depicting what appears to be a spectacular blaze. The clip installs malware onto the PC of those falling for the ruse. Click here to find out more! Fake Alonso crash scam lure The malware is identified by Spanish anti-virus firm Panda Security as Banker-LGC. "This is not the first time we have seen this piece of news used to spread malware though, as a few weeks ago we saw a very similar one, the major difference was that it was trying to install a Gaobot worm instead," notes Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. Full story here - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07..._crash_trojan/
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