Look Out Nerds: Hackers Are Unleashing Olympic-Themed Trojan Viruses

Don’t open that email that says “Help Free Tibet!” Fuck Tibet, for now. JK. No. Look. There are a group of scoundrels trying to con you into revealing how little money you make and what porn your constantly watching on your LCD 17 inch Dell flatscreen. They are using the Olympics to exploit your gullibility with the intent to rape you of all that is superficially and fiscally important to you, me and the world.

Within the last six months, MessageLabs has found at least 13 new Trojan horse programs associated with e-mails bearing subjects such as “The Beijing 2008 Torch Relay” and “National Olympic Committee and Ticket Sales Agents.”

The problem is, according to a MessageLabs representative, that the hackers’ e-mail messages employ an embedded Microsoft Office database file within the zipped attachment. Microsoft said in a recent security advisory that customers not running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to allowing remote attackers to gain full access to a compromised machine.

And they aren’t aiming for just anyone. They are looking for corporate networks, so you know we’ve ransacked our arsenal here at MC HQ; which consists of tear gas, gas masks, stink bombs, mustard gas, regular gas and sharpened spoons. You’re not taking us alive, biatches! Oh. What’s that? We’re on an Apple network? Oh.
At least 13 Olympics-theme Trojan horses seen (so far) [CNET]
Image [DOIT]