New password-stealing virus targets Facebook

Baack · Mar 18, 2010

Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment to obtain new login credentials, according to anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc.
If the attachment is opened, it downloads several types of malicious software, including a program that steals passwords, McAfee said on Wednesday.
Hackers have long targeted Facebook users, sending them tainted messages via the social networking company's own internal email system. With this new attack, they are using regular Internet email to spread their malicious software.
A Facebook spokesman said the company could not comment on the specific case, but pointed to a status update the company posted on its web site earlier on Wednesday warning users about the spoofed email and advising users to delete the email and to warn their friends.
McAfee estimates that hackers sent out tens of millions of spam across Europe, the United States and Asia since the campaign began on Tuesday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100318/lf_nm_life/us_facebook_virus

kajidono · Mar 19, 2010

Ha! I knew it! I got that email today, lol. Gmail dumped it straight in the spam folder with a warning about the spoofed ip it was sent from.

a2madmac · Mar 21, 2010

I just dumped facebook last week...
Not happy with "friends" clicking on an app, and your info being suplied to that app.

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