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New Malware Spam Reporting Bogus Beijing Earthquake Targets Olympic Games Fans

2008-06-19 22:49:25 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Botnet operators are using false reports about an earthquake near Beijing that could disrupt the Olympic games to spread malware. Unsolicited emails discovered to be a part of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred in China, and could derail the upcoming Olympic Games. Samples of the bogus alert doing the
 
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Olympic Committee Trying to Take Chicago2016.com Away from Grad Student

2008-09-19 19:03:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Olympic committee and the Chicago group organizing an Olympic bid for that year want it from him. They have filed through arbitration processes to have the domain turned over. The committee is currently using chicago2016.org as its domain, but that's not good enough. "We certainly see Chicago2016.com as the logical default domain for our...
 
 
 
 
 
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Asia launches Olympic exploits at enterprise

2008-04-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x847376c in Network World on Security
 
A spate of Beijing Olympic phishing e-mails have been discovered which install Trojans via a Microsoft Office vulnerability
 
 
 
 
 
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China aims to protect Olympic content from pirates

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
China warned Web sites and mobile content providers not to violate the state-owned broadcaster's rights to cover the Olympic Games
 
 
 
 
 
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Nortel wins Olympic gold, but reports Q2 loss

2008-08-01 00:00:00 by Jim Duffy in Network World on Security
 
Nortel's good news is that it has been selected to supply the network infrastructure for the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games. The bad news is that the company's enterprise business fell in the second quarter
 
 
 
 
 
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Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher

2008-08-04 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Scammers have already stolen thousands of dollars from people using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, and a security expert warned that more such sites will pop up this month
 
 
 
 
 
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Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher

2008-08-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b47a48 in Network World on Security
 
Scammers have duped hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars each using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, reports said today. A security expert warned that more will follow
 
 
 
 
 
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Top China Web sites join to fight Olympic piracy

2008-08-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e74 in Network World on Security
 
China's top 10 Web sites are following a government order to work together to fight piracy of Olympic material, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday
 
 
 
 
 
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Security firm warns against Olympic spam

2008-08-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b57894 in Network World on Security
 
Beware of e-mails with sensational Olympic subject titles. They will likely contain a form of malware called Storm that infects computer systems, according to enterprise security firm, Secure Computing