Obama in sex video? Be careful!

NEW DELHI: Nothing sells as sex. And if it comes with a celebrity, the combination gets lethal. And so it is. According to researchers at Websense Security Labs, a new spam email that targets the upcoming US presidential election with fake news about a sex scandal involving the Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Ukrainian women is doing rounds on the Internet. The subject line says "Obama sex video!!!" and the email appears to come from “infonews@obama.com.” The spam entices users with a socially engineered message briefly describing the affair and goes on to encourages eager victims to click on a link which supposedly has a flash video of Obama. The email message says, "Sensation United States Senator for Illinois Barack Obama in 2007 was travel to Ukraine and have sex action with many Ukrainian girls. You may view this private porno in a flash video. Please send this news to your friends. Obama its not right choice." The users who fall to the bait are shown a 14 second pornographic video (incidentally, Obama is not in it), taken from hxxp://homemade*snip*.com/, during which a malicious code is silently installed on their computers. Meanwhile, behind the scenes a Trojan horse known as Mal/Hupig-D get installed. The Trojan targets Windows machines and steals passwords and bank account data.