Halloween Brings Hackers in Your Computer

Security company Sophos discovered a Halloween spam campaign which attempts to redirect the users to malicious websites ‘equipped’ with dangerous files. The spam messages can be easily identified using their subjects: ‘Happy Halloween’, ‘Dancing Bones’, ‘The most amazing dancing skeleton’, ‘Shows this to the kids’, ‘Send this to your friends’ or ‘Man this rocks’. According to the reports, the messages require the users to visit a malicious website in order to download a dancing skeleton game but instead of saving the Halloween content, they actually get a Trojan horse. The interesting fact is that the infected file gives the attackers the possibility to control the affected computer from any system connected to the Internet. Read More »