Antivirus adventure Vkontakte

Many users of the VC social network started receiving notifications about the detection of suspicious activity on their computers and offers to install the free Cezurity antivirus.



By clicking on the link after long deliberation, the browser offers to download and run an executable file of the form Cezurity_Scanner-67ed0000000000000201.exe .
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What is it is not clear ...

This action, which began without warning and explanation, at first glance looks like a typical phishing attempt and malicious modification of a social network page. The spurious name of the service, an attempt to immediately force the user to download and run the executable file casts even more suspicions. At the same time, the “free antivirus” has its own website and even the official page in VK, where it calls itself the official “antivirus service” of this social network.



UPD Frustrated users flooded the official group of the application, so that administrators had to disable the ability to leave comments and start erasing an existing negative.