Web-Surfers Alerted of Personalized Assaults on New Google Plus

Kaspersky Labs is cautioning Web-surfers that cyber-criminals are launching targeted assaults against users of Google Plus the recently-introduced social-networking website.

Observes the company that even with the introduction of 'Google+' during June-end 2011, the website's expansion has already touched over 10m visitors during the early weeks of July 2011 something that's truly astonishing. Unsurprisingly therefore, cyber-criminals too are getting attracted to the said website.

Indeed, Kaspersky finds that online-crooks by now are attacking users on this network with fake friend invites in e-mails.

Stated malware Researcher Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky Labs' Global Research and Analysis Team that Google Plus was one more entrant on the list of global websites for social networking and surely a trilling opportunity for exploring it, especially with cyber-criminals always on the lookout for new grounds to exploit. Actually, Kaspersky Labs has already detected Brazilian online-crooks who're dispatching bogus invites having malevolent web-links that lead onto banker Trojans, Assolini noted. Iafrica.com published this on July 21, 2011.

The researcher added that his team discovered one of the bogus invites aiming at Portuguese-language speakers so it felt that it was essential for alerting people about the possible e-threats aiming at the social network while it was all ready to expand.

Said Kaspersky, the bogus invite consisted of a contaminated web-link that diverted end-users onto one extremely popular banker Trojan in Brazil of the .cmd type harbored on Dropbox. Further, it fascinatingly contained one more web-link that led onto a file Google Docs hosted. That link read "send the invitation to your friends;" however, it was in reality a fake program designed for harvesting fresh victims' names along with e-mail IDs, the security company cautioned. Businessday.co.za published this on July 22, 2011.

And because the above type of attacks are so malicious, Kaspersky Labs advises Web-surfers to remain distanced from so-called 'friend invites' acquired through e-mail towards foiling the potential danger.

Conclusively Assolini states that to have a secured experience on social-networking websites, it's crucial that users remain wary of the aforementioned dangers' existence so necessary measures maybe adopted for safe and healthy socializing. Memeburn.com published this on July 21, 2011.

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