Cybercriminals Using Facebook To Drive Rogue Antimalware Business


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Cybercriminals Using Facebook To Drive Rogue Antimalware Business

PandaLabs discovers Boface.BJ.worm, which uses Facebook to download and install rogue antimalware and trick users into believing they are infected and consequently buy a fake antivirus solution

May 14, 2009 | 11:20 AM

GLENDALE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- PandaLabs, "Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced that it has discovered that variant number 56 of the Boface family of worms has just appeared, Boface.BJ.worm. Largely due to the enormous global popularity of Facebook and the potential it offers for reaching numerous users, each of these variants has been designed especially to use this social network to distribute and download malware. The BJ variant in particular uses Facebook to download and install rogue anti-malware and trick users into believing they are infected and consequently buy a fake antivirus. "

full story at DarkReading - http://tinyurl.com/ovveok

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