Alert: Two New Malware Strains Hit Facebook, AIM and Yahoo!

Need further proof that social media sites are now home base for serious malware attacks? Read this: two new malware strains have been launched, targeting Facebook, AIM and Yahoo! users, according to IT security firm PandaLabs.

Need further proof that social media sites are now home base for serious malware attacks? Read this: two new malware strains have been launched, targeting Facebook, AIM and Yahoo! users, according to IT security firm PandaLabs.

The first strain, Asprox.N, is disguised in this email to Facebook users informing them their Facebook account is being used to distribute spam and that, for security reasons, the login credentials have been changed. The email includes a fake Word document attachment, tagged with an icon and the filename Facebook_details.exe.

The file, by design, is really a Trojan that downloads another file and connects to mail service providers in an attempt to spam as many users as possible.

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