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Hackers leverage Obama win for massive malware campaign.

Attacks account for 60% of all malicious spam today, says one researcher

Hackers have seized on the results of the U.S. presidential election to launch a major malware campaign that tries to trick users into installing an update to Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash, but actually plants a Trojan horse on unprotected PCs, security experts warned today.

The malware blitz stems from spam messages touting Sen. Barack Obama's victory last night, and offers up a link to what is supposedly a site sporting election results. When users click on the link, however, they're shunted to a fake site that demands the user install an update to Adobe's Flash Player before viewing a video.

Rather than a Flash update, what's actually downloaded is a Trojan horse that compromises the PC then floods the machine with more malware...

"Users need to remember not to click on links."

-- Tom