Daily Archives: 14/02/2011

Beware of Facebook Malware

Facebook Virus war Beware of Facebook MalwareIt is evident that social media and social networking are the biggest thing on the web today, and what’s bad about it’s popularity? Cybercriminals know about it.

It is not anything new to see spam or malware while browsing the net, or just viewing your emails. As more and more people engage with social media, it is now becoming the target of cybercriminals for their dirty little acts. Facebook specifically invites lots of these ill thinking folks because of its huge collection of information about its members.

Recently Pandalabs alerted Facebook users about the malware “Asprox.N”. The malware disguises itself as an email telling you that your login credentials have been altered and tells you to download the attached files, a word document and an executable file with the name of Facebook_details.exe. This is trojan in nature, it will then try to download another file that will connect to your mail service provider and spam as many email addresses as possible.

The email looks like this :
5394881095 4f914a3b87 o Beware of Facebook Malware

With social media we are connected to the world, and so as these criminals who are hungry for real information from people that they can use for their own means.