Malware Hijacks Clipboard

The Register writes that recently there's been reported about several cases in which surfers have noticed their clipboard content has been replaced with a link to rogue antispyware program. The rogue link won't go away even after the user copies a new batch of text. The only way to remove it is to reboot the system.

Thus far the attack has been reported by Firefox users running both OS X and Windows. At the moment it's not clear how the attack spreads exactly but the culprit might be Flash using malware.

By using clipboard functionality people behind the attack try to get the user paste the bad url in emails, blog/forum posts or directly into a browser's address bar spreading the link further.