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Danger worm hijacks Facebook accounts to inject banking Trojan

A dangerous worm is using Facebook to spread itself by posting malicious links on the social networking website that point to malware-tainted sites loaded with a variant of the Zeus banking Trojan as well as other nasties. The malware uses stolen Facebook account credentials to log into compromised accounts and post links, …

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It's a Windows problem

Linux users move along nothing to see here.

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Heh. Heh heh heh. Heh.

You said 'booby'.

Where's the Beavis and Butthead icon?

Checkout the guy in the middle of this clip, he has the same problem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSLb2phjDk

Pint

So glad

I canned my Facetube account & blocked it on my machine.

dangerous Facebook banking worm?

Technically speaking this isn't a worm as in order to spread, it requires human beings to click on links and enter their admin password. A more interesting question is how the malware writers got hold of the Facebook account credentials. Does this Facebook banking worm run on Apple Macs or Linux?

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