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Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace

2008/08/04
By Marc Van Norden

Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace by ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine — My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab (see disclosure) have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems. The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player downloads to trick end users into installing malicious executables. As [...]

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