Seculert researchers say that the Kelihos botnet is alive and well, spreading with the aid of a Facebook worm that infects the computers of customers mostly from the US and Poland.
On March 28, 2012, Kaspersky experts revealed that with the aid of CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, the Honeynet Project and Dell SecureWo... |
30 March 2012
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Researchers from Bitdefender stumbled upon what they believed to be the Fawkes Virus advertised by Anonymous not long ago in a Youtube video.
Not long after the video announcement was launched online, experts from the security company came across a Facebook scam that promised a New Facebook Video Chat with Voice Fea... |
14 November 2011
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The latest video announcement that seems to be coming from the infamous hacktivist collective reveals to the world the presence of a malicious worm that is already spreading on Facebook like a wild fire.
The Fawkes Virus, as it's called, is allegedly written by Anonymous programmers with the purpose of taking o... |
11 November 2011
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Security researchers warn of a worm that spreads by posting spam messages via Facebook chat in an attempt to trick users to download and run a malicious executable.The malware hijacks Facebook accounts from infected computer and spams users in their friend lists.The rogue messages promise users access to an intriguin... |
10 January 2011
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Researchers from a French security consultancy company called Wargan Solutions have discovered three cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and two cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on Facebook and used them to built two proof-of-concept information stealing worms. CSRF vulnerabilities can be exploited by forcin... |
5 October 2010
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The Facebook staff has been hard at work to squash a new worm propagating on the social networking platform with the help of unwary users. Using the image of a female model in lingerie as lure, the nuisance spread from wall to wall through a Web exploitation technique known as clickjacking.This most recent attack doe... |
24 November 2009
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Virus analysts from Panda Security warn of a new variant of the infamous Koobface worm, which was released on the popular Facebook social network. Its authors have changed the template of the spam messages, but, most importantly, have adopted the scareware model. Koobface is a computer worm that first appeared durin... |
18 May 2009
04:24 GMT |
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