Cybercriminals have wasted no time taking advantage of the news that the world’s number one golfer, Tiger Woods, has been involved in a car accident outside his house in Florida.
Hackers have created webpages claiming to contain video content related to the accident where Tiger Woods reportedly crashed his car into a fire hydrant and tree as he left his home at 02:25 local time.
However, if users try and watch the videos (some of which claim that Tiger Woods’ marriage to his Swedish model wife Elin Nordegren was suffering difficulties because of his alleged friendship with New York City party girl Rachel Uchitel) they are taken to a fake video player page which tries to download an executable file to their computer’s hard drive.
The file, called Movie_HD_Plugin_Update.40014.exe, claims to be a plugin to allow you to watch the video, but users would be very unwise to…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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