Fake Sites Spreading Malware Claim Obama Won’t Take Oath

Sites claiming President-Elect Barack Obama will refuse to take the oath of office Tuesday are serving up attack code believed to be programmed by the same hackers responsible for the notorious Storm bot Trojan. Spam campaigns are in gear that try to trick users into visiting malicious Web sites hosting variations of “Waledec,” the Trojan horse thought to be the successor to Storm. Waledec has been linked to 2008’s Storm by researchers including Joe Stewart, director of research at Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc.”]

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