New threat in Portuguese name uses Facebook to spread ... - TeK.sapo

class=”artigo”> “Facebook did a check into your account:. was detected virus / malware on your Facebook that undermine the speed of our servers Third parties can have access to your account, personal data may be captured “. Is this somewhat intimidating to some users are receiving an email on behalf of Facebook. The poorly written and the sender of the text message – suporte@facebookmail.com – immediately call attention to the possibility of being a scam

When confronted with the type of message. , the director of the security area FCCN, Lino Santos, devalued saying that such threats appear every week, whether involving the name of Facebook and other social networks, is on “representation” of Google, Microsoft or PayPal

Lino Santos speaks at the distribution of the message based on the use of a known brand because there is a higher probability to reach a larger group of people. The “design” message, similar to others that Facebook sends really can fool most unsuspecting.

According to the director of security area FCCN this is the common way of performing this type of threat: the Internet user is tricked into clicking a link that downloading a file, a piece of software that compromises the user’s computer when executed,. taken here is the link to an infected network, being “dumped” a second piece of malicious software

A survey by Google enables realize that the message has been circulating for a few boxes of email users for months now. In PhishTank site, where they are published alleged phishing schemes, this scheme also Facebook is already on the list in question.

In TeK the downloading of the file has been accompanied by a popup security software that called for the . immediate analysis of the file with the extension cpl -. the same type of file used in another scam that circulated in 2013

Lino Santos gets some advice to surfers to avoid such threats. The top priority is the need to keep all software updated computer, because even if the operating system is up to date, hackers can take advantage of flaws in Flash, exemplified the safety engineer.

Having a good antivirus and a firewall enabled also helps, while paying greater attention to email messages also turns out to be a weapon of defense.

Rui Ferreira da Rocha

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