Sunday, December 21, 2008

Facebook users at risk

120 million users of the popular social network Facebook may not feel safe - are now on the resource, "walk" the virus, easily killing the client in order to steal personal data - credit card number, social insurance.

Koobface, is addressed program works quite simply, send you an invitation to friends. Communication from the fake account is as follows: "You look cool in this video" or "you are just amazing here." As soon as the naive user clicks on a link, supposedly leading to the loading of the same video, "a secret video of Thomas' movie does not play, showing a message that you need to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Of course, no useful software on the following link you can not see - just a virus that almost instantly downloaded to a PC user, stealing on the road all the available information.

Being busy, the virus can steal the data in two ways: the first is that Koobface waits until you make a purchase on the Net, the payment, followed by sending "master" .. And the second way - the virus searches for any files cookies, analyzing them to determine the presence of the same payment data.