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Facebook ‘photo’ spam containing malware targets social media users
28.08.2012
Facebook ‘photo’ spam containing malware targets social media users
Facebook users have been warned that there’s new spam hitting email inboxes that preted to come from Facebook telling them they’ve been tagged in photo. Instead, once they click on the link they trigger the download of malware.
Sophos has warned that the emails look convincing but the attached ZIP file contains malware designed to allow hackers to take control of their personal computers.
The security software company intercepted the malware as Troj/Agent-XNN.
Last month, experts at SophosLabs saw another malware campaign posing as a Facebook photo tag notification.
On that occasion, the emails did not contain attachments but instead linked to compromised websites which aimed to attack visiting computers with the Blackhole exploit kit.
Below: beware of emails that look like this
John Kennedy
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