WHID 2009-14: My.BarackObama.com Infects Visitors With Trojan
Websense reports that my.barackobama.com, an open blogging service which is part of Obama's campaign web site has been used to point users to malware infecting content.
The scam is a good example of the dangers of Web 2.0 user generated content and mashups. There was no malicious code on the Obama's site, however an allowed HTML code looking like a YouTube embedded flick pointed to an external site which carried the malware.
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