The malicious file used in the lures is the same in both cases, a banking trojan that originates from Brazil.
"In the case of Osama bin Laden, the Trojan first tries to trick users by offering the White House's best kept secret: the video of his death", he says, adding that it is surprising that the lure also claims to have footage of the late Al Qaeda leader alive and holding a newspaper dated after his `supposed' death.
And, he observes in his latest security blog, it seems to be working, as after analysing the malicious URLs used to download malware in recent days, Panda has observed the bin Laden videos in online rankings, with people apparently clicking on them a lot.
The malicious codes, Corrons goes on to say, being used are downloader trojans belonging to the Banload family. These spread through email and social networks primarily and try to download two images from a webpage, which they later rename and run.
The second attack, the Panda technical director explains, exploits the recent royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
"In this case the bait is quite sensationalist: a `censored video of the Princess' with an alleged `ex-boyfriend' some weeks before the wedding. The malware used in this case is the same banking and downloader trojan from Brazil", he notes.
Corrons concludes that, whilst Panda is pleased to see hackers keeping up to date with the latest world news, "we are not so happy to learn that they keep exploiting them for their fraudulent activities."
"As always, we advise users to be very wary of this kind of content. If such videos really existed they would no doubt make the headlines on CNN or any other TV stations, they wouldn't end up in your hands first", he explained.