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The worm also acts as a backdoor for hackers to launch an attack on infected computers and networks, and had previously stolen banking details.
“With the recent ZeuS Facebook worm and this latest Ramnit variant, it appears that sophisticated hackers are now experimenting with replacing the old-school email worms with more up-to-date social network worms,” Seculert said.
“As demonstrated by the 45,000 compromised Facebook subscribers, the viral power of social networks can be manipulated to cause considerable damage to individuals and institutions when it is in the wrong hands,” it said.
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