Indian Facebook Accountholders get Attacked with Porn Inserting Malware

A malware attack has hit users of Facebook inside India that injects porn content into their timelines followed with contaminating friends communicating on the social network, thus published domain-b.com, June 11, 2015.

Reportedly, one web-link leading onto a video carries the malware that's inserted into users' timelines.

Albeit the problem affected numerous social media visitors, it isn't possible to explicitly substantiate that it is an epidemic. Nevertheless, in case it is, the origin most probably is certain malware strain which circulated within USA during January 2015.

Belonging to the Kilim group of malicious programs, the malware in discussion characteristically penetrates an end-user's Facebook account via one Trojan pulled down.

Users on Facebook lured with the video become tempted to follow the web-link that has a shortened URL namely ow.ly. This URL subsequently diverts victims several times to eventually land them on certain malevolent site.

The site thereafter checks the platform the user is on followed with either popping up advertisements onto his phone else instructs him for downloading some software program to be used for his PC.

Obviously, the program isn't anything but a Trojan; however, mimics an update for Flash Player.

Subsequently, the particular Trojan copies itself onto the user's computer and starts taking down extensions for the video player supposedly to be watched on his browser. The extensions thereafter let the Trojan towards posting the said porn material onto the user's Facebook profile. Along with this, it as well sends bulk messages to the different friends' profiles containing the malicious web-link which contaminates those friends too.

However, for remaining safe, it's recommended that users mustn't follow dubious web-links; not load updates for Flash Player provided via an unfamiliar online site, and forever maintain their AV programs up-to-date.

In an official statement Facebook said that the company utilized several automated mechanisms for spotting potentially harmful web-links while prevent their proliferation. Within the current instance, Facebook was wary about the particular malware kind that spread though web-links on social-networking websites. So it was blocking those web-links, providing cleanup options, while deploying extra measures for making sure people kept on remaining secured on Facebook, the statement concluded.

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