Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Malware Impersonate "Valentine's Day" is Circulating on Facebook

Users of the social networking website Facebook either access via the mobile device or PC should be wary. The reason, in the Mark Zuckerberg's site are being widely circulating malware impersonate Valentine Day.


Is Trend Micro Internet security company, who have found and identified malware Valentine.

Clickjacking activities that utilize the moment of Valentine day is already starting to run the action, far before the celebration which falls on February 14.

The attack began with a post on the Facebook Wall, which contains an invitation to click and download the free theme to change the look of your Facebook page with the feel of a typical Valentine Day.

Trend Micro detects the installer as TROJ_FOOKBACE.A and when executed, then TROJ_FOOKBACE.A will execute a script that displays ads from certain sites.

Monitoring of activities against Trend Micro browser, TROJ_FOOBACE.A so far not the case data theft technique. But, Trend Micro, keep giving the warning that users remain wary of traps of free theme-style Valentine.

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