About that Erin Andrews video that just installed a trojan


Remember back the other day when Paul posted about the peep show video of ESPN hottie Erin Andrews hitting the web?

Well it appears that the malware authors have discovered it as well and now are using it as the hottest target to infect machines around the world. This is accord to a post by Tom Kelchner from Sunbelt Software, the developers of security software, where he lets folks know about what their hunt for the video could end up getting them – and it’s not pretty either.

Today isn’t a good time to go looking for that Erin Andrews “peep hole” video.

There has been a boom in malicious spam, web sites and Twitter posts advertising a “peep hole” video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews undressing in a hotel room.

Researchers at Sunbelt Software have detected that the Trojan installers used in the scam are generating a large number of polymorphic variants. The installers change with sites each day and number around 10,000 unique hashes.

VIPRE detects one as Trojan.NSIS.DnsChanger (v). Detections for a second, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.CodecPack.2GCash.Gen, will be pushed out shortly.

At one point on Tuesday, July 21, the number-one hit in a Google search for “Erin Andrews” was just two clicks away from a site with a downloader.

Needless to say, don’t get curious about the video. A rogue anti-malware product and a key logger are among the things that are downloaded.

Like Tom says you might want to think twice about looking for the video unless of course you like having your machine infected – then by all means hunt away but consider yourself warned.

picture courtesy of Sunbelt Software

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