Today PandaLabs has detected W32/FakeDeath.A.worm. This worm spreads itself in an email message with the subject “Mala Noticia” (Bad news) and makes reference to the supposed death of Fidel Castro.
The message entices users to know more information about the news by clicking a link to a video about it.
When clicking the link to the supposed video (UnivisionMultimedia_flashplayer_swf.exe), we will be redirected to a website displaying the news published by the newspaper Diario Clarín on 30th of August 1997 about the fake death of the Cuban ex-president.
At the same time this website is displayed, a copy of the worm is being downloaded to the computer. The main aim of this worm is to spread itself via P2P programs.
Although our TruPrevent Technologies have automatically detect it, be careful if you get one of these.