Bhutto Assassination Video Trojan

There are lots of websites out there taking advantage of the Bhutto Bombing to spread malware and trojan horse attacks. According to McAfee, some are posing as video codecs hosted on Blogspot sites.

From McAfee here:

Within hours after the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware authors have started capitalizing on this news to spread a new fake codec. This time it is purported to be an assassination video of the former PM.

Claiming to be a New HD Codec, these malware authors attempt to social engineer users into believing they are downloading a legitimate codec for playing the video. At least 10 Blogger websites are observed to be hosting this fake video.

Google should be able to do so much more to prevent their servers from hosting malware. Its real easy to tie a search engine to a cross reference database of known malware links or AV signatures. They don’t have to do it for all websites they index, but they certainly should do it for their own domain.