Cyber criminals exploit tragic stories
Just hours after the Oslo bomb last Friday, links to video footage claiming to capture the moment of the explosion were posted on Facebook, while during the weekend other links appeared purporting to contain graphic images of troubled Winehouse snorting cocaine shortly before her death, and even pictures of her dead body.
Urban Schrott, a cybercrime analyst with IT security company Eset Ireland, said unsuspecting Facebook account-holders who clicked on the links which appear in their newsfeeds risked exposing their computers to infections.
