Trojan Attacking Facebook Members Victimizes 10,000 within Just 48-hrs

Of late, Kaspersky the security company said that a malware assault had occurred wherein about 10,000 Facebook members globally were affected during June 24 to 27, 2016 as their devices were contaminated via one "friend mention" item.

According to Senior Security Researcher Ido Naor of Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team, the assault showed two prominent things. One, malware was delivered very effectively as several thousand people were hit within just 48-hrs. Two, media's and consumers' responses too were extremely quick, with awareness about the attack rising that incited prompt investigation as well as necessary action from providers concerned.

Originally, punters received certain missive from their buddy on Facebook stating that their names found reference within one post somewhere, explains Kaspersky Lab. This' something which presumably sets high Facebook's life; consequently, a lot of people replied to the missive while unwittingly clicking through to land into problems.

Further, the malware assault involved two stage occurrences. First, there was one Trojan virus that got planted onto the victim's PC to pull down one malevolent browser extension which led to the virus gaining hold of the victimized member's A/C on Facebook. This way, computers got endangered, with the maximum being Windows-based PCs.

As the Trojan entered an account and acquired control over it, the malware became capable of altering the privacy configurations, while proliferated via Facebook friends of the victim. Opptrends.com posted this dated July 2, 2016.

Kaspersky reports it's been a year since the Trojan has been circulating, while possibly emerging from crooks speaking Turkish language. It's also been found that users of iOS and Android weren't vulnerable to the malware because of lack of incompatibility with it.

As accords to the security firm, the Trojan has been mitigated from Facebook's end while the company is as well putting effort towards thwarting malware-disseminating methods via contaminated PCs. Google too eliminated one-or-more Chrome extensions existing inside the Web Store of the Internet giant.

Specifically, an alert was issued to Facebook engineers, so they acted for blocking the tactics the malware utilized for disseminating. Google as well deleted rogue extensions that inflicted Chrome Web Store.

» SPAMfighter News - 7/7/2016