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Friday
Mar192010

Your Facebook Password Has Been Reset - Facebook Users Target of Latest Trojan

DateFriday, March 19, 2010 at 1:34PM | |

According to Dave Marcus Director of Security Research and Communication at McAfee, the messages are targeting 400 Million Facebook users, and was detected by customers using their security software.

Marcus said the spam run contained a variety of malware programs, including password stealers, rogue antivirus programs or botnet code.

He also went on to say that No Web site would automatically reset someone's password and send the new one in an e-mail. Facebook's high number of users makes it a prime target for spammers and hackers.

The messages say that the user's Facebook password has been reset and the user should download an attachment that contains the new password. The English-language messages are grammatically correct, but contain an odd sign-off: "Thanks, Your Facebook." McAfee has included a screenshot of the message on their blog.

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    Source: Facebook users targeted in spam attack
    by Jeremy Kirk on March 18, 2010
    The attachment is actually a Trojan horse program, which infects a computer without any visible signs. Marcus said the spam run contained a variety of malware programs, including password stealers, rogue antivirus programs or botnet code.
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    Source: Facebook Suffers ‘Password Reset’ Scam
    by David Marcus on March 17, 2010
    The activity on this particular scam run has been global from the beginning, and thanks to our Artemis “cloud” technology we have dealt with it very efficiently. The malware in the attachment is pretty much what one would expect: downloaders, password-stealing Trojan, fake-AV, or bot stuff, depending on which one you got. Check out the Artemis map of this malware:

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