Password-Stealing Virus Targeting Facebook Users
It's another email scam targeting Facebook users.
By now a good deal of web surfers are connected to a social network website in some aspect, whether its to hunt down old high-school friends or to post another silly buzz from a demanding boss. Naturally places like Facebook and MySpace are havens for hackers looking for a good pool of information to steal, throwing out lures in hopes of reeling in a really big fish.
With that said, it should come as no shock that hackers are flooding inboxes with virus-tainted spam that's targeting Facebook's over 400 million users. According to McAfee, the hackers are looking for the usual bag of goodies: your username, passwords, and whatever else they can acquire. The hook? Fake Facebook emails telling recipients that their password has been reset, and they need to click on an attachment to retrieve it.
"Once installed, the password stealer can potentially access any username and password combination utilized on that computer, not just for the user’s Facebook account," McAfee said in a security alert. "This is also the sixth most prevalent piece of malware targeting consumers in the last 24 hours, as tracked by McAfee Labs."
The big no-brainer here is that Facebook would never send an attachment. McAfee even pointed out that Facebook would never send an email alerting a user that they changed his or her password. Additionally, Facebook emails wouldn't contain poor grammar and awkward phrases like "Dear user of Facebook."
Bottom line: social website users should stay alert and be wary of bogus email and friend requests from unfamiliar parties.
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So you mean all the emails I receive about my eBay password has been changed, eBay order has been canceled, paypal payment canceled... those with link that goes to a weird website, which then I login using my username and password, but it then goes to some advertising website... all those were FAKE? Oh no! Should I then not believe what I see on the internet? What would my life be??!?! Oh no...
I really wonder how people keep getting taken in by the same scams over and over again.
Because aware people are only 1-5% on the internet. And even some of the people who come to this kind of sites still slip if they're not cautious.
I've been cleaning this mess up for weeks, the number of stupid people that just have to open every attachment is astounding!
There are so many noobs out there to exploit, it is so beautiful it makes me cry.
Nothing is private on the web.
Im actually quite glad people will fall for these things. This is really good job security for me and all other IT pros
rab1d.. lol
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Any guess as to which OSes are susceptible to this malware?
jhansonxi that's nice joke... i guess
okay...seriously? Who the hell actually falls for this crap?
Here's my Facebook login details:
username: ScrewYou
password: B$tch
@jhansonxi
actually, windows is more secure than mac os x...the only reason windows gets more malware is because 1: its the most popular OS worldwide and hackers want to target a large number of "victims" and 2: so many people are just so dumb...a lot of those people run to the "protection" of mac os x when in reality, mac os x itself isn't protecting them, it's the fact that even hackers believe mac os x is a waste of time that protects them...
while your at it, just give them your bank account info, address and everything else. Whoever does give there information is a total noob
Easy Targets
@emlee0203
This is platform non-specific actually and your "fight" is old and pointless. Let's examine 2 possibilities:
1. jhansonxi aimed at windows because he is a Mac fanboi. If true he is a fool that doesn't understand how computers work.
2. He said that to throw sarcasm at the ever popular mac fanboi vs. windows war as this exploit is not platform unique. In that case good joke and well done.
In neither case do you need to incite the war. Let #1s be fools and enjoy the #2s. After all the Pwn2own contest objectively proves security if anything in this day and age can.
@alkybird and emlee0203:
For the record I use mostly Linux. I'm also a Windows admin and I own a Mac Mini (and several older models). McAfee's report doesn't indicate which OS is affected by this malware. Since the only reason I don't think McAfee's software is the worst in the industry is because Symantec already has that honor, I have to assume this is just more fear-mongering marketing FUD.
You guys may scoff at these emails, but you should take some of them seriously.The other day this Nigerian princess sent me an email because she needed my help to get her money out of Africa. All I had to do was send her my bank details, credit card number and a cheque for $200. She is going to move $100 million into my account and then back into a Swiss account for safe keeping... But guess what? I GET TO KEEP 10% - Yeah that's right, a cool ten million is coming my way and I hardly had to lift a finger!You suckers are going to be laughing on the other side of your faces when my money comes in!;-)
Well my friend that ain't nothing... let me say again
Yesterday, I won the Asian lottery ooo yeaa Asian. I will receive $85.000.000 thats right US $. All I have to do is contact an agent and there is even a number. Its all legit.
Who needs Tom's 3k give away computer now I can buy a 10k custom build alien oo yeaa.. Take that Princess.
back on subject....Facebook whats that??