Facebook infection
Facebook's worldwide popularity is growing day by day. This is not surprising, because Facebook is a priceless find for employers, marketers, journalists and ... hackers. Evidence of virus writers' interest in this social network is the recent increase in the number of phishing attacks and infections by other malware.
Among the various malware that spreads on Facebook, the Koobface worm stands apart. Despite the fact that it was first recorded in August 2008, today the infection rate is higher than ever before. The largest percentage is in America and the Scandinavian countries, where Facebook is the most popular.
Koobface has two interesting features. After the malicious file is executed on the computer, the program communicates with the command and control server to transmit the stolen information, and then it is deleted. The second feature of the worm is a confusing disguise. The creators of Koobface modify the structure of the malicious code itself, and not the packer layers, as is usually the case with such threats. Thus, Koobface can quite skillfully cheat on some anti-virus solutions. But not ESET NOD32 Antivirus! =)
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To avoid infection, you must use a reliable licensed antivirus software and, of course, - the head. That is, with a healthy skepticism refer to various suspicious links and executable files, even if they are received from friends.
Fan Club ESET NOD32 on Facebook
Among the various malware that spreads on Facebook, the Koobface worm stands apart. Despite the fact that it was first recorded in August 2008, today the infection rate is higher than ever before. The largest percentage is in America and the Scandinavian countries, where Facebook is the most popular.
Koobface has two interesting features. After the malicious file is executed on the computer, the program communicates with the command and control server to transmit the stolen information, and then it is deleted. The second feature of the worm is a confusing disguise. The creators of Koobface modify the structure of the malicious code itself, and not the packer layers, as is usually the case with such threats. Thus, Koobface can quite skillfully cheat on some anti-virus solutions. But not ESET NOD32 Antivirus! =)
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To avoid infection, you must use a reliable licensed antivirus software and, of course, - the head. That is, with a healthy skepticism refer to various suspicious links and executable files, even if they are received from friends.
Fan Club ESET NOD32 on Facebook
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/62372/
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