Not surprisingly, malware authors have jumped on the Barack Obama presidential election win to spread their evil code. Sophos says Obama-related malware is accounting for 60% of the traffic they're seeing at various sensor stations throughout the Internet. Most of the messages are trying to direct users to a doctored election results page that when visited prompts the user to install a fake Adobe Flash plug-in to view Obama's acceptance speech. The application is really a new Trojan dubbed Mal/Behav-027. Sophos' Graham Cluley says the Trojan could be used to compromise data or steal user information.
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