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Radio station hijacked by Jackson hackers

A radio station in Sydney has been hit by a major spam attack, which is proliferating following the death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson.

Cybercriminals hacked into Beatz Radio's web server and used the site to host unseen videos and pictures of Jackson.

However, the files were actually password-stealing Trojans, which are used to transmit keystrokes from an infected computer back to the hackers.

Links to the videos were then sent around the world in a major spam campaign.

Beatz Radio chief Tim Little said that at the time he had no idea that the website's security had been compromised.

He was contacted by Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team and has since removed the offending malware.

"Our site has been hacked twice and it has only just gone live today," said Little

According to Trend Micro, data stealing malware is on the rise.

A new report published by the firm shows that the recent increase in cybercrime is linked to the harvesting of internet users personal information.

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