It’s pretty clear that Beijing’s Olympic Games are a good chance for cybercrooks to infect users using the Games as a social engineering tool. The Games have started today, and we have just seen a new malware, Bck/PcClient.HV, that seems to be a PowerPoint about the Games, but it installs in the infected computers the files PcCortr.dll and 81.dll, that lower the system security level, enabling the file wuauct.exe copied by the malware in the system folder to remotely connect to a Chinese IP to send information about the infected computer. To avoid any suspect, it shows 12 slides about the real Beijing Olympic Stadium:
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This post was written by Ted on August 8, 2008
