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Facebook Bot Spreads Through Chat Messengers [Updated]

Aug

2012

Update from Facebook: The Facebook security team been actively tracking this botnet and providing McAfee AV to the victims (via Scan and Repair) The sample covered is out of date, and the malware now works differently Any users infected with this malware should be pointed to the McAfee self-checkpoint on.fb.me/InfectedMcA [Original Post]Malware authors are fond […]

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The first Trojan in history to steal Linux and Mac OS X passwords

Aug

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is reporting the emergence of the first cross-platform backdoor to run under Linux and Mac OS X. This malicious program is designed to steal passwords stored by a number of popular Internet applications. BackDoor.Wirenet.1 is the first such Trojan capable of running under any of these operating systems. It’s not […]

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New Trojan horse threatens Facebook users

Feb

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users of a Trojan.OneX program that uses infected machines to send spam via Facebook and messaging clients. Currently, two modifications of this Trojan horse with similar features are found regularly in the wild. Given the spreading scheme the number of victims can be extremely large. Trojan.OneX runs only under 32-bit […]

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