29 June,2009 09:11 AM IST | | Kumar Saurav
If you think you've shed enough tears on the sudden demise of pop legend Michael Jackson, think again. After the news of his death, the entertainer has become muse of spammers across the world.
In its latest report, Internet and IT security firm, Websense Security Labs, has discovered spam emails offering recipients links to unpublished videos and pictures of Jackson.
The report says, "The spam email appears to offer a link to a YouTube video, but instead sends the recipient to a Trojan Downloader hosted on a compromised website."
These Trojans enable hackers remotely access a computer system and perform desired operations like file deletion, modification, upload and download. Other unwanted harmful software can be installed as well.
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Plus, data theft activities like password detection; security codes modification and credit card information leakage can be conducted through these Trojans.
Spotting one such instance, the report adds, "One of the file on the lose is called Michael.Jackson.videos.scr, which is hosted on a legitimate portal of a radio station in Australia."u00a0
