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Press release:
Posts on your Facebook wall may lead to Trojan horse infection, says Sophos
IT security and control firm Sophos is warning users of Facebook to exercise caution when clicking on links in wall posts, following an attempt by hackers to infect computers by spreading messages containing malicious links on the popular social networking website.
Messages left on Facebook users’ walls are urging members to view a video (which pretends to be hosted on a Google website), but clicking on the link and visiting the webpage actually takes users to a site which asks them to download an executable to watch the movie. Sophos warns that the dangerous Facebook messages include a link to a third party website of the form:
‘h__p://www.google.com.id. [removed] .cn/gallery.php?id=…’
The executable file, detected by Sophos as the Troj/Dloadr-BPL Trojan horse, then downloads further malicious code (detected as Troj/Agent-HJX), and displays an innocent image of a court jester sticking his tongue out.
“Clicking on links in messages can lead to a malware infection, whether the messages are in your email or on a site like Facebook. There has been a flurry of malicious emails recently posing as links to videos – so there’s really no excuse not to know that this trick is being commonly used by hackers at the moment,” says Brett Myroff, CEO of regional Sophos distributor, Sophos South Africa.
Posts on your Facebook wall may lead to Trojan horse infection, says Sophos
IT security and control firm Sophos is warning users of Facebook to exercise caution when clicking on links in wall posts, following an attempt by hackers to infect computers by spreading messages containing malicious links on the popular social networking website.
Messages left on Facebook users’ walls are urging members to view a video (which pretends to be hosted on a Google website), but clicking on the link and visiting the webpage actually takes users to a site which asks them to download an executable to watch the movie. Sophos warns that the dangerous Facebook messages include a link to a third party website of the form:
‘h__p://www.google.com.id. [removed] .cn/gallery.php?id=…’
The executable file, detected by Sophos as the Troj/Dloadr-BPL Trojan horse, then downloads further malicious code (detected as Troj/Agent-HJX), and displays an innocent image of a court jester sticking his tongue out.
“Clicking on links in messages can lead to a malware infection, whether the messages are in your email or on a site like Facebook. There has been a flurry of malicious emails recently posing as links to videos – so there’s really no excuse not to know that this trick is being commonly used by hackers at the moment,” says Brett Myroff, CEO of regional Sophos distributor, Sophos South Africa.