Will not go away
A new wave of
socially engineered worms and trojans is targeting the social notworking site
Facebook
For some reason Facebook users worldwide have been duped into
downloading a worm called Koobface via fake video links and now a new variant to
the worm emerged. This uploads a spoof YouTube page when you click on a video
link, complete with a friend's profile picture.
Sometimes the video download,
which may claim to contain hidden camera footage of you, or a famous celebrity,
then encourages you to download an updated version of the Adobe Flash Player
plug-in.
It is not clear why punters on Facebook are falling for the worm so
easily as it has now been out for months and word has got out. We guess it is
the same people who reply to Nigerian scam emails.