New Variant of Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook
Sources: Rik Ferguson, TrendMicro.com, Brian Krebs, Washington Post
I’ve been using Facebook steadily since the beginning of 2009. Right now I have 220 friends. As much fun as it is to fun track down people, you still have to be on your guard.
Facebook and the rest of the other social networking websites are as vulnerable to people with sinister intentions as are regular email accounts.
Brian Krebs says:
Security experts are warning users of Facebook, MySpace and other social networking communities to be on guard against a new strain of the “Koobface” worm, which spreads by tricking users into responding to a message apparently sent from one of their friends.
The latest version of Koobface arrives as an invitation from a user’s friend or contact, inviting the recipient to click on a link and view a video at a counterfeit YouTube site. Visitors are told they need need to install an Adobe Flash plug-in to view the video.
The bogus plug-in instead installs a Trojan horse program that gives Koobface author(s) control over the infected user’s computer.
Get the rest of the “Koobface” Worm details from Rik Ferguson and Brian Krebs.
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