Celebrity Popularity and Spam
It's not surprising to hear Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain were popular topics for spammers last month, but they weren't the only celebrities making the spam rounds. Micheal Jackson, Heather Mills, and Indiana Jones are climbing in the spammers popularity index judging from Symantec's State of Spam report (pdf).
If you're not up on People magazine, not to worry, you can at least know who's making news by scanning the subject lines of emails that end up in your filter/trash folder.
The celebrity spam is used to push a trojan with a rootkit and spamming programs. Symantc notes this piece is probably the first full kernel mode malware seen in the wild.
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