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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.
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!
I have no sympathy for anyone who uses Facebook and gets pwn3d by this shit.
How do real Facebook emails deliver it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Much of the spam I see is Paypal and Facebook. Shouldn't spam filters be image matching logos or looking for company names in an email and verifying the email came from a domain associated with that company?
mobile app assigned a phone number to my tablet.
Everything the phone company does involves phone numbers. Don't like it? Disable 3G/4G connectivity and live from WiFi AP to WiFi AP.
Have gnu, will travel.
you do know that there are in fact very nice tablets that
DO NOT HAVE A PHONE RADIO AT ALL
Sooo why is this an article here? seriously this has been a common attack method for over a decade.
Oh, but how am I going to keep in touch with my 573,674 friends?
LOL, you have FIVE friends, the rest are Facebook 'bots.
I have Friends and Family I need to keep in touch with, they're important to me!
If they're so goddamn important, why can't you pick up a phone once a week and, I dunno, actually TALK to them? Or how about something SO RADICAL as actually seeing people in person?
I use this to represent my business
LOL nobody cares, get a fuckign webpage like everyone else, loser, you just have NO FRIENDS and are lonely. Try OKCupid or something.
You people are wasting time and energy and accomplishing NOTHING on Facebook. What was the last time you cleaned your house? Went to the gym? Out for a run, hell, even a WALK? You don't need to be glued to Facebook, the Internet, or your goddamn phone either. Go do something that actually matters and leave all that stupid shit behind somewhere. You might actually be healthier and happier in the long run.
The tablet doesn't have a sim card. or cell phone connectivity. Read the AC's post.
Yet more and more phone calls can be placed via VoIP over wifi, which tablets can do.
No phone radio required. Their accounting and authentication system assigns a phone number in order to allow and control access on their network. A number will be assigned whether you have capabilities or not. Think of it as an access code even though it looks like a phone number.
Ignore this. I just noticed he was talking of the Facebook app not the tablet 3/4g access.
"A new spam campaign is targeting Facebook users"
Shouldn't that be spam campaign is targeting Microsoft Windows?
There are more than 50 file extensions in Windows that will execute. It's hard to get all of them, and it sucks that Exchange doesn't block them out of the box. Our company email was shutdown for almost a week after Microsoft added the .MSI extension, and our users kept installing trojans. Microsoft didn't give any warning before adding that crappy feature. At the time, we used a project management system that used the extension .mis, so users didn't notice the difference.
So use a whitelist, not a blacklist, for your blocking policies.
Or do the other smart thing and don't allow regular users to have admin privileges.