Well this has nothing to do with Obama’s illegal links with underworld hacker community. But this has certainly to do with innocence of people w.r.t good security practices. Obama’s win has been used (rather misused) by hackers and Malware authors to social engineer people into clicking a link claiming to be a webpage containing details of Obama’s acceptance speech. But actually those webpages were some hacked websites used to distribute malicious rootkits

According to Mr. Singh the attackers had hacked into a well known travel site. It was then used to host an information-stealing Trojan Horse downloader file called ‘BarackObama.exe’. ‘BarackObama.exe’ executed and unpacked phishing kits locally..

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