Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message

An anonymous reader writes: A new spam campaign is targeting Facebook users. It uses the same approach as the recent one aimed at WhatsApp users, and Comodo researchers believe that the authors of both campaigns are likely the same. The fake emails are made to look like an official communication from the popular social network, and their goal is to make the victims believe they have received a voice message. The attachment that the recipients are urged to download and open contains a malicious executable — a variant of the Nivdort information-stealing Trojan.

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I received the message

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I got that message. I figured what is the harm in opening an executable I received in an attachment. After all, this is 1992! Modern times!