{"id":1796,"date":"2016-06-30T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:11:30","slug":"malware-attacks-10000-facebook-users-across-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/malware-attacks-10000-facebook-users-across-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware Attacks 10,000 Facebook Users Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 26th<\/sup>, 2016, \u00a0thousands of Facebook users discovered that they had been tainted by a virus after they got a message from a Facebook friend by way of \u201cmention\u201d.\u00a0 According to Poynter Institute, Facebook\u00a0Mentions are the fraternal twin to Twitter’s @mention\u00a0feature. When you update your status on\u00a0Facebook and type @ followed by the first few letters of a friend’s name, a drop-down menu appears, allowing you to select the friend, or in this case, the victimized.<\/p>\n

Kapersky labs investigated the desktop-targeting\/ two-part digital attack on Facebook users that was executed, and it was soon discovered that the digital attack was hitting targets around the world.<\/p>\n

The first stage of the attack started when the user clicked on the \u201cmention\u201d. A malicious file seized control of their browsers, terminating their browser session and replacing it with a malicious one that included a tab to the legitimate Facebook login page – this provided the attackers with a rabbit hole through which they could hijack the user\u2019s Facebook session and permissions and send out malicious notifications to the victim\u2019s Facebook friends.<\/p>\n

Upon logging back into Facebook the victim\u2019s session was hijacked in the background and a new file was downloaded. This represented the second stage of the attack, as embedded in this file was an account-takeover script that included a privacy-settings changer, account-data extractor and various other tools that could be used for further malicious activity, such as spam, identity theft and generating fraudulent \u2018likes\u2019 and \u2018shares\u2019.<\/p>\n

The most affected countries were Brazil, Poland, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Greece, Portugal, Tunisia, Venezuela, Germany and Israel.<\/p>\n

The Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) recorded right around ten thousand disease endeavors the world over in the span of only 48 hours. Though Facebook has now mitigated this threat and implemented blocking techniques used to spread malware from infected computers, it\u2019s important to do your part as an Android user.<\/p>\n

Psafe Total has an effective team that is always keeping eye on new malwares\/threats for users. <\/em><\/p>\n

Ensure your device isn\u2019t at risk by scanning for threats.<\/p>\n

Run a Full PSafe Total AV Scan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"BOTAO-VIRUS_EN\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A malware attack tricked around 10,000 Facebook users around the world Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[162,1370,545,249],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-antivirus","tag-facebook-malware","tag-safety","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}