The computer worm known as Koobface was a menace to Facebook users over the past few years, and it played a role in sharpening Facebook’s defenses against attackers of all kinds. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm
The men live comfortable lives in St. Petersburg — and have frolicked on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and, earlier this month, Turkey, according to photographs posted on social network sites — even though their identities have been known for years to Facebook, computer security investigators and…
Facebook Security impersonated by hackers in chat phishing attack
Hackers are impersonating the Facebook security team using hijacked accounts in a new phishing attack spreading through the social network. The attackers replace the profile picture of compromised accounts with the Facebook logo and change their names to a variation of “Facebook Security” written with special Unicode characters, said Kaspersky…
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Facebook hacked by Ramnit worm
More than 45,000 Facebook accounts have been hacked using the Ramnit worm, a computer security firm says. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Worm ‘steals Facebook passwords’
5 January 2012 Last updated at 12:55 ET More malware is worming its way onto social networks. A computer worm has stolen 45,000 login credentials from Facebook, security experts have warned. The data is believed to have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in the UK and France, according to…
Part virus, part botnet, spreading fast: Ramnit moves past Facebook passwords
The latest variant of Ramnit, the Windows malware responsible for the recent theft of at least 45,000 Facebook logins, is the latest example of how malware writers and cyber-criminals take “off-the-shelf” hacks and bolt them together to teach old viruses new tricks. Facebook passwords aren’t the only thing that the…
Facebook Down: Worm Steals Login Info of 45K, How to Protect Your Account
Like us on Facebook The stolen credentials were used to spread the virus to other friends and to even attack the victim’s other web-based services, as many users use the same passwords for other services like their e-mail accounts and other social media sites. According to Microsoft, the Ramnit virus…
Worm steals 45,000 Facebook passwords, researchers say
A computer worm has stolen 45,000 login credentials from Facebook, security experts have warned. … View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms