A worm (type of virus) computers known as Ramnit reportedly stole 45 thousand Facebook password widely. Action worm was widespread in Europe, from your facebook account in the UK and France.
This malware has been around since April 2010 and previously had data stolen banking details. Reported from the BBC website, Facebook is steeped case. Genesis was last found in a laboratory owned security company Seculert.
"We suffered a theft Ramnit using credentials to log into facebook account and move the victim a malicious link to friends, to spread malware," researchers said in the company's security blog.
"In addition, cyber criminals take advantage of this case by directing users to use the same password in the type of web-based services, to gain control of access to corporate networks," he added.
The biggest social network is then offered large rewards for the hackers, given the amount of personal data being stolen is very large. Malware is getting updated during the age of social networking.
"It appeared that hackers are now keen to experiment with replacing the old way of an email worm with a worm update social networking."
"As shown by the 45 thousand subscriptions Facebook agreed, the power of social networks can be manipulated virus that causes severe damage to individuals and institutions when it is in the hands of the ignorant," said Seculert.
According to Seculert, 800 thousand machines have been infected Ramnit from September until the end of December 2011.
For example, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Ramnit described as "multi-family component of the infectious malware on Windows, which can be done as well as HTML files, theft of sensitive information such as the theft of FTP credentials and the browser is abandoned".
In July 2011, the report estimates that this type of worm Symantec Ramnit amounted to 17.3% of all new malware infections. For Facebook users who have been afflicted by the worm, it is advisable to use antivirus software immediately.
"It's not necessarily obvious that you have been attacked. Worm is a password stealer so it will not announce itself, "said Grahan Cluley, Senior Security Consultant at Sophos.
A recent report called, a new Facebook know that the virus did not develop in Facebook.According to Facebook, it comes from external partners.
"We therefore urge our users to become fans Facebook Security Page as additional security information," said Facebook told the BBC.
This malware has been around since April 2010 and previously had data stolen banking details. Reported from the BBC website, Facebook is steeped case. Genesis was last found in a laboratory owned security company Seculert.
"We suffered a theft Ramnit using credentials to log into facebook account and move the victim a malicious link to friends, to spread malware," researchers said in the company's security blog.
"In addition, cyber criminals take advantage of this case by directing users to use the same password in the type of web-based services, to gain control of access to corporate networks," he added.
The biggest social network is then offered large rewards for the hackers, given the amount of personal data being stolen is very large. Malware is getting updated during the age of social networking.
"It appeared that hackers are now keen to experiment with replacing the old way of an email worm with a worm update social networking."
"As shown by the 45 thousand subscriptions Facebook agreed, the power of social networks can be manipulated virus that causes severe damage to individuals and institutions when it is in the hands of the ignorant," said Seculert.
According to Seculert, 800 thousand machines have been infected Ramnit from September until the end of December 2011.
For example, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Ramnit described as "multi-family component of the infectious malware on Windows, which can be done as well as HTML files, theft of sensitive information such as the theft of FTP credentials and the browser is abandoned".
In July 2011, the report estimates that this type of worm Symantec Ramnit amounted to 17.3% of all new malware infections. For Facebook users who have been afflicted by the worm, it is advisable to use antivirus software immediately.
"It's not necessarily obvious that you have been attacked. Worm is a password stealer so it will not announce itself, "said Grahan Cluley, Senior Security Consultant at Sophos.
A recent report called, a new Facebook know that the virus did not develop in Facebook.According to Facebook, it comes from external partners.
"We therefore urge our users to become fans Facebook Security Page as additional security information," said Facebook told the BBC.
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