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1/28/2010 3:50:00 PM

Hackers use a Facebook hoax to plant Rouge Antimalware

by Oren Medini

Hackers are spreading a rumor regarding Facebook, describingit as a botnet that is used it to infect Facebook users with rogueanti-malware.

In the last 48 hours a rumor was spread claiming that an“unnamed app” in Facebook is actually a bot Trojan. The rumor was a hoax, andhackers used it to distribute malicious fake antivirus software (Rougeanti-malware). When Googling for “unnamed app”, people received links to siteswhich pose as security sites but are actually fake antivirus traps – rogueanti-malware sites.

Please be aware.

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Malweb | Hackers | Web-based Trojans