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Disney’s “High School Musical” Poses Malware Threat

Reports from Panda Security reveals that cyber crooks are now circulating the malware, concealed as video and music files of "High School Musical", a well-known Disney movie, on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, as reported by SecureComputing on November 21, 2008.

Addressing a press release on November 21, 2008, security vendor, PandaLabs, stated that the experienced users might be aware of the attacks led by adware, Trojan horses and other similar malevolent codes, which are concealed in the popular Disney movies' video and music files. But the younger crowd is probably inexperienced in context of social engineering tactics deployed by the scammers.

PandaLab's Chief Corporate evangelist, Ryan Sherstobitoff, announced this attack as the most high-profile th...

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