Saturday, June 12, 2010
Facebook 'sexiest video' malware
If you get a posting on your Facebook wall telling you "this is without doubt the sexiest video ever! :P :P :P" which seems to be accompanied by a video titled "Candid Camera Prank [HQ]" then don't click on the video: it's a lead-in to malware.
Clicking the link will take you to what seems like a Facebook application which then tells you that your video player is out of date – and encourages you to download a file.
If you do, then the same "video" plus link gets posted using your avatar to al your friends on Facebook -– meaning it is spreading virally.
It's not clear at present whether Facebook has acted to halt it. You should, however, expect that it will mutate in the coming hours/days (depending on how determined the virus writer is), so it might not be exactly that message or video frame. The key element in the attack is that it tells you to download a file.
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