New threat uses Facebook name to spread malware. - Real Time

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Virus in Facebook . According to the website TeK , another scam takes advantage of the large number of social network users Mark Zuckerberg to raise a network for victims of malware. “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 can be captured” says the message false that some netizens are getting into Facebook name.

According to the publication, poorly written text and the message sender – suporte@facebookmail.com – 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 the “representation” of Google Microsoft or PayPal .

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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 the other Facebook actually sends, can fool the most unprepared.

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 loading a link which downloads a file, a piece of software that compromises your computer when executed, is there made a connection to a contaminated network, being “dumped” a second piece of malicious software.

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Google lets you realize that the message has been circulating for some users’ email boxes a few months ago. In site PhishTank where alleged phishing schemes are published, this scheme Facebook also already included in the listing in question.

TeK the downloading of the file has been accompanied by a popup for a 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 activated also helps, while paying greater attention to electronic mail messages also turns out to be a weapon of defense.

(*) On site information TeK .