Ternyata kematian michael jacko berpengaruh juga pada “virus” komputer di jagad maya. Seolah pengen nebeng nama besar dan keuntungan dari berita meninggalnya sang mega bintang “king of Pop” itu kii virus itu menyebar lewat email. Perusahaan keamanan komputer Sophos pekan lalu memperingatkan bahwa satu virus telah beredar di Internet, Mereka mengatakan para pemakai Internet agar tidak membuka email yang menyatakan diri berisi gambar dan lagu rahasia Michael Jackson.
Surat elektronik itu memiliki judul “Remembering Michael Jackson” dan dikirim oleh “sarah@michaeljackson.com”, kata Sophos dalam pernyataan yang dikirim lewat cabang untuk Asia di Singapura.
Menurut Sophos, email tersebut memberitahu penerimanya bahwa satu file tautan dengan judul “Michael songs and picture.zip” berisi gambar dan lagu rahasia sang bintang musik pop, yang meninggal akibat jantungnya berhenti berdenyut secara mendadak di Amerika Serikat pada Kamis, 25 Juni.
Sophos menyarankan pemakai komputer agar tidak membuka surat elektronik itu.
“Dengan membuka file tautan, pemakai komputer terpajan (exposed) terhadap infeksi. Begitu terinfeksi, satu komputer akan secara otomatis mulai menyebarkan ‘worm‘ ke komputer lain lewat Internet,” kata Sophos.
Sophos mengatakan virus tersebut juga mampu menyebar saat komponen Autorun di memori USB yang terpasang.
Dan petikan dari Sophos :
Hackers are using Michael Jackson’s death to try and trick people into disclosing personal details, says Sophos. According to the security vendor, less than 24 hours after the death of the 50-year-old singer, web users have received emails that claim to contain ‘vital information’ about his death. Sophos says that although the messages don’t contain any malicious attachments or links to infected websites, if the recipient replies, spammers can harvest their email address for potential use in ID fraud. “Hackers are never slow to jump upon the coattails of breaking news stories in their attempts to spread spam and malware. Cybercriminals have no respect for taste and decency. The only thing they are interested in is making some money for themselves, and turning other computer users’ lives into a misery,” said Graham Cluley of Sophos.”With so many people going onto the net to follow the latest developments in the Michael Jackson story, we wouldn’t be surprised at all to see further attempts to trick people. No-one at the moment would bet any money on hackers not chasing after this story by spamming out malicious links claiming to include exclusive footage of Jackson’s last moments, or disguising themselves as breaking news from the likes of the BBC.”source : antaranews, sophos, berbagai sumber lainnya
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