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Mal/Jessy-A exploiting assassination of Benazir Bhutto

While drinking my coffee this morning I was reading another blog. The story about hackers poisoning Search Engine results for queries regarding the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan Ms Benazir Bhutto was interesting.

From my investigations it doesn’t look like the hackers were targeting Ms Bhutto but rather websites in Pakistan and India.

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The script that people would download is now detected as Mal/Jessy-A. Mal/Jessy-A would attempt to download Troj/Iframe-M from the same site then Mal/WSshl-A and ultimately Mal/Basine-C.

At this time many expatriate Pakistanis or those of Pakistani origin with relatives in Pakistan will be hungry for news from the region. This malware seeding will add to their miseries. Luckily people browsing behind a WS1000 are safe.


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