Two Malware Strains Hijacking Facebook Accounts
Panda Security has discovered two malware strains distributed off of Facebook but that send spam to accounts on the social network.
Panda Security has discovered two malware strains on that may account for recent scams involving hijacked Facebook accounts posting spam on people’s walls.
The vendor calls the first of these discoveries Asprox.N, identifying it as a Trojan transported via email (see image below) declaring that users’ Facebook accounts are distributing spam that has prompted the social network to change the users to change their login credentials.
The message includes an attachment described as a Word document supposedly contains the new password, but the file has a name Facebook_details.exe
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