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Obama still a hot favourite for hackers

Cyber crooks are not yet done with exposing 'Barak' Obama's sex life, it would appear.

Internet security experts say new malicious emails on the US president-elect are doing the rounds on the internet and this time they are promising to expose Obama's "sex scandal".

"Barak Obama sex scandal", reads one of the subject lines while the other is titled "Barak Obama p0rn video, file attached, watch him", says online security firm Sophos.

"Opening the attachment - currently called zeland-01.zip - is not a good idea as it really contains the Troj/Agent-IDO malicious Trojan horse," warned the firm's chief technology officer Graham Cluley.

According to the internet security expert, the attackers, who seem to have trouble spelling Obama's first name, are "really trying to get users to download a Trojan horse disguised as an Adobe Flash update to their Windows PC".

The revelation comes in the wake of a similar campaign launched last week in which the crooks sent emails claiming to contain a link to a video of one of the former senator's speeches.

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