Dloadr-ZP Trojan Virus

Hackers Use Putin Death Hoax to Spread Virus. The spam emails have the subject line “ATTENTION!!! President of Russia has died” and a link to more information on the subject.

A spam campaign that poses as a breaking news report about the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin is actually an attempt by hackers to infect computer users with a Dloadr-ZP Trojan Virus.

Embedded in this spam is a hidden script that exploits the ADODB.Stream vulnerability in Internet Explorer to secretly download the malicious Dloadr-ZP trojan from a Russian website. The trojan is designed to download a more malicious code which allows hackers to gain access to the victim’s computer.