[HIB]Hackers use 'dead' celebrities in Zeus botnet attack

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Hackers are using tales of dead celebrities to build out Zeus botnets by duping users into compromising their own PCs, security experts said today. The list of celebrities, actors and singers for the most part, with an occasional sports star tossed in, range from Jennifer Anniston and Tom Cruise to Kanye West and Jay Z, said Symantec. According to the spam that carries the malware, the personalities perished along with 34 others when their aircraft crashed into a mountainside during a landing. Later, the hackers changed the campaign to claim that the celebs were killed in car accidents.

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