The supposed death of Osama bin Laden has revolutionized Internet. The news has broken record in social networks as a "topic of the moment", and both Twitter and Facebook have been detected already the first attempts of propagation of malware.
Now the situation has taken the "classic way" and the FBI has warned users about the spread of a virus through e-mail messages, which is offered to watch the video of the death of the leader of Al Qaeda.
This message would be sent by a known contact which had already been infected, which is why fidelity to it adds more danger to the situation to assume this truthful. Once it has fallen into the trap, the virus infects the machine and spreads through the list of contacts, thus continuing its multiplication.
Taking advantage of the curiosity of unwary users, the cibercriminales are commonly used advertising that give greater current affairs, that more interest generated, to create the best possible hook, and Osama bin Laden is the "topic of the moment".
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