Hackers exploit Polish president's death with massive scareware attack
Hackers exploited the tragic plane crash killing Poland's president and other military and civil society leaders on April 10 by flooding search engine results with links to fake anti-virus software.
President Lech Kaczyinski and 91 other Polish dignitaries were killed when their Soviet-era model Typolev Tu-154 plane crashed in Russia while attempting to land in a heavy fog. A Google search of "Tu-154" resulted in several pages of links that pointed to the same rogue antivirus software, ITBusiness.ca discovered Monday.
Gary Warner, a computer forensics expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham conducted an analysis of the malware. Most antivirus scanners were unable to detect the malware masquerading as security software. The identity of the person who registered the sites is associated with more than 1,800 domains linked to similar scams.
