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New Facebook Worm In The Wild

Discussion in 'Security Updates' started by starbuck, Nov 29, 2011.

  1. starbuck

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    Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, have spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform.
    In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said to be "a classic" one in terms of how it infects Internet users: uses stolen credentials to log in to Facebook accounts and then spam contacts. The message is said to contain a link to a file purporting to be an image—Screenshot of the file shows it has a .JPG extension—but it's actually a malicious screensaver. Once run, it drops a cocktail of malicious files onto the system, including ZeuS, a popular Trojan spyware capable of stealing user information from infected systems.

    The worm is also found to have anti-VM capabilities, making it useless to execute and test in a virtual environment, such as Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMWare.

    Please keep in mind that securing your information, including your social network credentials, is a must. Never unknowingly click links on messages sent over by online contacts. Make sure that they did send messages to you first before doing something; else, it is best if you simply delete them from your message inbox.



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