WARNING: Emails Promoting ‘Business’ Flash Player Lead To Facebook Malware

Attention, Google Chrome users: There is no such thing as a “business” Flash player, and downloading any browser extensions billed as such will bring some serious malware with it.

Attention, Google Chrome users: There is no such thing as a “business” Flash player, and downloading any browser extensions billed as such will bring some serious malware with it.

Bitdefender Senior E-Threat Analyst Bogdan Botezatu told PCWorld about the threat, saying that it is being spread through spam emails that direct users to the Chrome Web Store to download business Flash player browser extensions.

Botezatu told PCWorld that once the bogus software is installed, it monitors users’ browser activity and strikes when those users land on pages that they are logged into via Facebook.

In those cases, Botezatu told PCWorld, the malware fetches pieces of JavaScript code that tell it what it can do with users’ Facebook accounts, and it leads to accounts being used to spam friends, post malicious links on news feed and timeline, and automatically like pages without consent.

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