FYI...

SPAM campaign targeting US Presidential Election... Malicious Code
- http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3177.aspx
09.09.2008 - "Websense... has discovered an emerging email campaign which uses the US presidential election as a social engineering mechanism to install information-stealing code on a victim's machine. With less than 2 months before the start of the election, emails are circulating with fake news of a sex scandal affecting one of the candidates. Recipients of the email are encouraged to view a video supposedly involving the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Users who click the link are shown a pornographic video taken from hxxp ://homemade*snip*.com/ . While the video plays for 14 seconds, malicious applications are installed on the victim's machine... The dropper installs 809.exe in the user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Also a Browser Helper Object (BHO) named Siemens32.dll is registered. This is an information-stealing application that posts data to a compromised Finnish travel site, hxxp ://*snip*-hotel.com/ ..."

(Screenshots available at the URL above.)

More...

- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001497.html
September 10, 2008 - "...Interestingly, there is no Medved Hotel in Finland... we have reported this to local authorities and they are working on getting the site shut down."
(More screenshots...)