Nude Carla Bruni pics masking Trojan lured G20 attendees to click by Lisa Vaas.
From the post:
Hackers used nude photos of former French first lady Carla Bruni as bait to get dozens of G20 representatives to click on what turned out to be a Trojan-delivering email.
According to News.com.au, dozens of diplomats attending the 2011 sixth G20 summit in Cannes were snared.
The tempting message that masked the Trojan was sent to the finance ministers and central bank representatives that attend these summits.
All that was needed to get those high-value espionage targets to click were these nine words:
To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here
So you can’t program Stuxnet class computer worms.
That doesn’t mean you can’t be a hacker.
If you can send email with the line: To see naked pictures of (insert name) click here., you are more than half-way to being a computer hacker.
You do have to remove “(insert name)” and insert a name your targets are likely to recognize. And include a hyperlink to the photos.
You can pick up malware just about everywhere on the Net.
For non-hackers out there, this is another example of failure to follow common security rules.
- Never follow links in email from untrusted sources.
- Never follow links in email promising nude photos, wealth, relief efforts, etc. from any source.
- Never open attachments from untrusted sources or even trusted ones if you aren’t expecting an attachment.
Following those three rules would make all U.S. agencies and departments more secure than the $millions Congress will spend post-Snowden.
No charge.