Hackers Exploit The Death of Steve Jobs

There are many times we have seen malicious users to exploit shocking news and big events in order to extract money or information from unsuspecting users, and of course they could not miss the death of Steve Jobs.

Since the day he died, the news of the death of Steve Jobs are mentioned everywhere, Facebook and Twitter have been filled with posts showing the tragic event as well as comments from fans has touched millions now. 
The hackers usually create a publication with embedded link (supposedly leads to a related article which is usually an article written by one of the leading blogs or news agencies) which of course will touch fans of this great personality for example: “Steve left us early ….” Then spreads to publish the link.

Probably 90% of the users will see it, especially in Facebook, and they will open it. In the link, however,anything could be hiden, like a product that the hackers want to promote, or worse, a malicious link.

Of course this is not the only way of cheating, but it is good to watch the links below and do not even trust links suggested by our friends if you do not have checked it first.

Occasionally used similar methods to defraud users with events happening around the world and top news like the killing of Osama bin Laden and the death of Michael Jackson that had shaken the world.

Let’s not forget also that the hackers exploited the death of Amy Winehouse just a few months ago.

You should always be quite careful, especially when it comes to events of global impact.