Bin Laden’s Death Brings High Traffic — and Malware
The news of Bin Laden’s death as been reported by USA President Barack Obama is flooding internet traffic. This internet traffic is not only including real news but also Malware. Since Bin Laden’s death reported, the internet is a buzz about this news and traffic is spiking from news site to social media including Malware. Google trend indicates that “Osama bin laden dead” at the highest level for trending topics: volcanic. Beside Google trend, Facebook page claims that “Osama Bin Laden is DEAD” had 261,075 likes at midday Monday.
It was started when USA President Barack Obama’s speech from White House late Sunday night following news of Osama bin Laden’s Death, Twitter reported there are 4000 tweets per second. This is amazing tweets and also makes sense since this is a big news of this year after Royal Wedding of Price William and Kate. Jake Wengroff, global director of social media at Frost & Sullivan said that “This is extraordinary, because Twitter usually witnesses 500 tweets per second.”
Beside real news that we can find on mentioned social media and news above, you will find also marlware in internet traffic recently. Beyond social media, malware connect to bin Laden death is making its way across the internet. Within hours of the announcement of his death, Zscaler was seeing malicious sites emerge to capitalize on the news. “One Spanish-language site displays a purported photo of a murdered Osama bin Laden and includes a story about the U.S.-led operation,” Zscaler security analyst Michael Sutton wrote on the company’s blog. “Farther down the page, the reader is presented with a Flash Player window with a message indicating that the user must first update a VLC plug-in, which is a popular media player, in order to view the video.”
“Sadly, there will be no shortage of scams taking advantage of this historic global news,” Sutton says. “Users should use caution any time a site claims to be offering video or photos related to this news.”
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