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Facebook accounts compromised
From Ars Technica
Dan Goodin - 4/18/2018, 11:56 AM
"Tens of thousands of Facebook accounts compromised in days by
malware Professionally developed trojan posing as a stress
reliever infects 40,000 PCs.
Criminals have compromised tens of thousands of Facebook
accounts in the past few days using malware that masquerades as
a paint program for relieving stress.
"Relieve Stress Paint" is available through a domain that uses
Unicode representation to show up as aol.net on search engines
and in emails, researchers from security firm Radware said in a
post published Wednesday morning. (This query showed the trojan
was also available on a domain that was designed to appear as
picc.com.) The researchers suspect the malware is being promoted
in spam emails."
Read the article:
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1295311
or
https://tinyurl.com/y7byxcs8
FIDOGAZETTE Vol 12 No 16 Page 4 April 18, 2018
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