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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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  1. "Facebook users" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have no sympathy for anyone who uses Facebook and gets pwn3d by this shit.