Malicious Spam Spread Under Swine Flu Theme

Swine flu is one of the biggest discussion topics in the world at the moment. Criminals are taking advantage of this too. F-Secure reports about malicious file spreading in emails. The file is named as Novel H1N1 Flu Situation Update.exe and icon is made to look like a Word document file. When opened, the file creates a few new files of which the executables contain backdoor functionality, including keylogger.