Hello, The more successful the environment, the more entrepreneurs take advantage of it, for both legal and illegal activities. I think someone from McAfee or Symantec that said Facebook is becoming the new Microsoft. The Koobface worm is an example of this; and it is just one of several: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koobface
F-Secure had a nice write-up on the "fake video" spam last month: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001517.html and security researcher Dancho Danchev has done an excellent job of covering the ecosystem in his blog at http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 11/17/2009, you wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:25:19 -0500 From: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Don't view any videos on Facebook To: "Andrew G. Malis" <[email protected]> Cc: Jeffrey Race <[email protected]>, ThinkPad Mailing List <[email protected]>, [email protected], Rob Bell <[email protected]> Message-ID: <000c01ca6735$97b3c8b0$6401a...@x20> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original It is on Facebook. The emails are legit. Somehow it sends it to all your "friends". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew G. Malis" <[email protected]> To: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]>; "Rob Bell" <[email protected]>; "ThinkPad Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Don't view any videos on Facebook > Bruce, > > Is this spam received in your email that looks like it came from > Facebook, or something embedded in videos directly on your Facebook > page? > > Thanks, > Andy > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Bruce Markowitz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is a nasty virus going around (I speak from PERSONAL experience) >> that >> is spoofing emails and asking you to view a video from someone you know. >> Be warned. >> _______________________________________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >>
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