This Isn't It!
Attention Michael Jackson fans, as you may know, MJ, following in Tupac's footsteps, released a brand new single, even after his death a couple of months ago. The single entitled "This is It" was released online at his website michaeljackson.com at midnight on the 12th. Well just a day or so later, we began seeing fake CNN breaking news reports hitting our filters.
The email came in with the subject "CNN Breaking News" and a brief story of how the single had been partially leaked on YouTube the day before its release. The "Breaking News" also contained a large link where you could "Listen Online Now". Once the link was clicked you were taken to a webpage that would simply try to get you to download malware that pretended to be the song. The file was titled Michael_Jackson-The_brand_new_song.hta . The file itself would load an .html page with the CNN logo and the YouTube video in question, however, behind the scenes the malware would secretly begin installing a backdoor into your PC.

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