Worm spread via spam on Facebook and MySpace

The security company Kasperky Lab warned that the virus maker has created a pair of worm used to attack users of the MySpace and Facebook. Two variants have got the latest worm Koobface nickname, using social engineering techniques by using a website as a gateway to the victim computer menginfeksi akan make it part of a botnet network.

When users with computers that have been infected with the worm to access to his MySpace account, then the variants Koobface akan-A link to the post in the "commentaries of friends" who will direct the user to click to a site that contains malicious programs. While the search for B-Koobface target Facebook users by sending spam messages to any "friends" from Facebook users who have tertulari virus.

Message with some subject such as "Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street" or as "Hello, You must see it! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam "and the other. The message is aimed so that the candidate pool to click a link that will take them to the website content that contains video clips that have been in pairs as a noose.

Potential victims will also receive a message to download the "latest version of Flash Player" but which actually is a file with that name codesetup.exe bring worm Koobface.
Alexander Gostev, a senior virus from Kaspersky Lab Analyst, said similar attacks could happen in the future. "At the beginning of the year 2008, we predicted that we will see an increase in cybercriminal who exploitation on MySpace, Facebook and a few similar websites, and now we have seen the evidence. I believe this is only the first step is simple, and the virus makers will continue to find the target from this source with the intensity increased, "he said in more.

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