Johnny Depp fake death notice – fake ActiveX codec
- Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 8:43
- Threat Research
On Jan 25 hackers spread a rumor claiming Johnny Depp died in acar accident. It was like a fire in a field of thorns: Twitter messages were sent talking about the rumor and gossip websites crashed. When trying to findmore information about the death of the actor using Google, some of the resultsled to websites containing a video of the car crash. The problem is that whenyou try to watch the video you will receive a message saying you don't have asupported codec and you need to download one in order to watch it. The socalled codec is actually a Trojan.
Here is a screen shot of the fake CNN page uploaded to Angefirewebsite from the Sky news website: http://tinyurl.com/yh7dsdz
Watch out from rumors!
Source: AIRC Blog