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Spammers and scammers move within hours of Osama Bin Laden's death
WITHIN TWO HOURS of the announcement that Osama Bin Laden was dead, internet criminals were in action and so was the security industry.
Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer of the SANS Internet Storm Center posted a warning about the event shortly after the news was announced. So far everything looked quiet he said, although a couple of image servers were active.
"There are some image searches that return an image claiming to be an image of dead Bin Laden, but right now, none of the servers hosting it respond. Some of the sites return SQL errors indicating that the sites are receiving too much traffic," he wrote.
However, in less than two hours after the official announcement, sites started to appear claiming to have pictures of the corpse. One Spanish language site had a badly photoshopped picture of a dead Bin Laden, with what purported to be a video of the body.
Michael Sutton, vice president of cloud security firm Zscaler, told The Inq that when viewers clicked on the link they were asked to download a VLC codec, which was in fact an adware tool called hotbar, a piece of malware that 19 out of 41 current antivirus engines can detect.
"With an attack this new then antivirus engines can't keep up with the pace, because attackers recode files," he said.
"Actually, 19 antivirus engines is pretty good. Usually, with this kind of new attack, only a quarter of them can handle it."
According to a posting on a black hat search engine optimisation site found by Imperva's security researchers, spammers are gearing up to harvest a lot of American victims.
The poster recommends setting up fan pages around Osama's death, and then asking other Facebook users to like the page. Such tactics got 600 ‘Like' clicks in two minutes the poster claims.
"Watch it go viral. You'll probably get 90 per cent USA FB users," he says.
However, by clicking the button they also end up liking "Get LAID with girls from FBook. Transform your PC into a seduction machine."
Readers are advised that no pictures of Bin Laden's body have been released and, since he's reportedly been buried at sea, the chances of more are vanishingly small. µ
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Osama: Jihad will continue even when I am not around (Late September 2001)http://billionaires.forbes.com/quote/04tw0jQ1WkgIr?q=Donald+Trump
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/02/147527.html?PHPSESSID=9ikjdnt8uladsfu3kk8gib9305
Also... Ayman Al Zawahiri is the chief streategist no one is taking his name... it is very strange that he didnt switch place for months... foot soldiers no matter ignorant of guarding what should have alramed with overflying choppers... there is no books/library seen in pics which he even kept in torabora caves... what resistance he gave for which he was to be shot imidiately, not prisoned. in released pics u see blood beside a bed on floor i.e. he was sitting on that side!?! if he can build such an alaborate building, couldnt there be cinfusingly complex tunnel system under that !?! Why he was keeping a son and daughter along knowing children can talk to stranger about him.
I am not saying he is alive and dummy was killed. Seeing Abu-Musab-Al-Zarqawi's killing, where info was provided by Jordanian spies, Osama could very well be planted in that place under some deal. tied to Afghanistan withdrawl !?!
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Terror_chief_a_target_amid_al-Qaida_fears_999.html
Anyway jihadist acrchecture since ever has been so complex and loosely binded that ... "Jihad will continue even when I am not around"
This goes on to prove that the world was a better place when Bin Laden was around... (yes, I am kidding.)
Hey Jimby, your concern regarding theInq's snide tone in reporting this serious issue may be understandable. But The Inq didn't say only Americans were gloating. They merely reported on the known and also understandable triumphalism which has been observed among Americans more than others. This was also seen 10 years ago, when I received then 'wishful' picture e-mail comics of Osama bin Laden being informed by his 'driver' that someone was tailing them (which turned out to be an F-16 jet). Now in this age, it's a known quantity that Americans more than most will be susceptible to checking out this kind of promise in an e-mail or facebook link. And the Inq is just pointing out - in their light evening irony style - that scammers will take advantage of this . So relax.
It wasn't just Americans that died on 9/11. And, it isn't just Americans gloating. So, please, remember this is a global defiance of terrorism and the mass murders masquerading as Muslims. So, please, get over yourself.