Worms Now Want To Be Your Friend On Facebook
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Mike Arrington is reporting worms now friending you on Facebook.
The worm spreads when a compromised user’s account is used to send message to others with a title such as “LOL. You’ve been catched on hidden cam, yo:” and a link to a random URL. The linked website is a YouTube-like page that shows a video player along with what looks like a standard browser message to update your Flash installation. Clicking on the button begins a malware installation of a file called “codecsetup.exe.”
I blogged about this earlier in the week but in the case of Twitter.
Look for 2009 to be the year of security hacks going social or forget Social Media maybe it’s called Social Exploits.
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I think it should be expected on many social networks and that’s exactly where I believe many anti-virus software developers will be looking into very closely (at least that’s what the guys from Kaspersky Labs hinted at because of the Twitter incident you mentioned).
P.S. By the way, you linked to Wired wiki post on where to watch the Olympics online instead of Mike’s coverage of the Facebook worms, by the way, and got to that thread on Techmeme as well.
on August 8, 2008 @ 3:17 am