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Muammar Gaddafi's death some time ago it helped awaken a desire for indulgence in cyber criminals trap evil program. There are three attacks are detected.

The team of researchers from security firm Trend Micro reveals which mode to use is to lure Internet users with pictures and videos related to the death of the former Libyan leader.

But what happens is when it is nothing more than fishing that can make the user to download malicious files. Here are three actions listed Trend Micro:

First, Trend Micro indicated that spam messages claiming that Gaddafi's death video was loaded and disguise itself as a newsletter that comes from CNN in Spanish.

The news informs users to download video footage of death Gaddafi. Video files named video-Ghadafi.mpeg.exe turned out to bring malware with BKDR_IRCBOT.DAM identification that will connect users to the server malware spreader.

Second, Trend Micro found in the form of file attachments .RAR is sent via email. This file contains the so-called 'body image last Muammar Gaddafi', but without knowing when it is preparing for the user to extract malware attack.

Final action is identified in the file Ghadafi.exe, thought to be malicious which has been detected as BKDR_EXDEPH.A.

According to Trend Micro, the profile of the virus has now changed dramatically - from a global pandemic into a sophisticated and targeted attacks. Recognizing that the technique is less effective past, now cybercriminals are constantly coming up with new techniques to trick users and infect.

They continue to release new variants of threats, increase the speed threat, and using the threat as a random attack, steal data through malware, and botnets.

This incident was reminiscent of all countries, in order to continue raising awareness that security intelligence in information technology, cloud and mobile, is very important.