Hackers use a Facebook hoax to plant Rouge Antimalware
- Thursday, January 28, 2010, 5:50
- Threat Research
Hackers are spreading a rumor regarding Facebook, describingit as a botnet that is used it to infect Facebook users with rogueanti-malware.In the last 48 hours a rumor was spread claiming that an“unnamed app” in Facebook is actually a bot Trojan. The rumor was a hoax, andhackers used it to distribute malicious fake antivirus software (Rougeanti-malware). When Googling for “unnamed app”, people received links to siteswhich pose as security sites but are actually fake antivirus traps – rogueanti-malware sites. Please be aware.