The President of the USA, Barack Obama, lately released his birth certificate clear the controversy over his place of birth. However, this news of the public display of Obama's birth certificate resulted in several Google Image searches for "Obama birth certificate", which in turn, offered a golden opportunity to the cybercrooks to make money from this hot and trendy topic, as reported by SOFTPEDIA on April 28, 2011.
Security experts at GFI software cautions that links directing netizens to drive-by download attacks have placed themselves on the first page of the results returned for the above stated keywords.
The malware ridden web pages install an exploit for a popular Java flaw. If installed properly, the attack leads to the deployment of a scareware application namely "Security Shield" on the victim's machines.
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