Saddam Hussein has been called upon many a time by scammers in the past. Almost two years back, photos of Saddam Hussein shot dead were used to dupe the users, which in fact harbored the Bobax.h worm to hijack the PC. Right after that, Nigerian fraudsters attempted to take recipients into relinquishing their money by presenting a share of the private fortunes of Hussein & his closest aids.
This time also, Finnish security company F-Secure has claimed that Trojan horses sponging off of on messages that claim to come with video clips of Saddam Hussein’s execution are hovering around like His ghost for Bush today. The maneuver is typical of hustlers and cybercreeps, which called the emergence of the pernicious Saddam Hussein spam “a non-surprising move.
As yet, 3 different pieces of malware that has been making use of a Saddam theme, have been detected by F-Secure, 2 of them-Banload.bsw & Banload.bsx-attempting to masquerade themselves by opening a YouTube search result page that brings forth hits from a keyword in Portuguese: “enforcado” (execution). All 3 exploits are in actual nothing but Trojans that install a spyware keylogger in order to commit theft of online bank account passwords.
