A new report shows, More than 800,000 Facebook users got there system infected and Accounts hijacked in last few days.Researcher Carlo de Micheli, in a Conversation with New York Times Bit blog said The Malware spreads in links, emails, messages on Facebook, twitter and other social web link.
On clicking these links users are prompted to download a online window extension.The online window extension is malicious and contains a malware that harvest users accounts details and other information that are saved in their online window as cookies or passwords.
Many users keep their Account information from Facebook, twitter, and other Important Accounts from Banks (passwords) saved in the online window to save time to login again and again, these passwords are hijacked and sent instantly to the Attacker.
These victims are then used to spread the malware through their Social internet Accounts to their friends, and so on.
The malware is spreading at a rate of 40,000 attacks per hour, and has infected more than 800,000 users in few days.A user once into the trap of these malware cannot easily remove it, since the malware disables web app controls to remove it, and it also blocks many websites providingMalware removal tools.
Carlo de Micheli says,the Attackers have also developed the extension for firefox, a another popular web internet tool.Although Facebook said that its security systems had also detected the attack and it was working to wipe the malicious links, But believe me Facebook cant really get rid of malwares & spams.
since Facebook is the primary target of Attackers.Time to Techworm have been warning for Facebook spams, though if you have already been in the prey, or want to know what the precautions are,we suggest you to look at this post
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source: www.techworm.net
