Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\nFacebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed “Koobface” that uses the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers.<\/p>\n
It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social networking sites.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
McAfee warned in a blog entry on Wednesday that its researchers had discovered that Koobface was making the rounds on Facebook.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
“People tend to let their guard down. They think you’ve got to log in with an account, so there is no way that worms and other viruses could infect them,” Boyd said.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
McAfee has not yet identified the perpetrators behind Koobface, who are improving the malicious software behind the virus in a bid to outsmart security at Facebook and MySpace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
Alternate solution: Cease and desist from using Facebook.<\/p>\n
And that’s my best offer. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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