Virus Koobface Attacks Facebook, Twitter

If you are active on social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc., here’s something you need to watch out for. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), under the Department of information technology, has said that a new worm – Koobface – is propagating through social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Bebo and Twitter.
CERT has said that the virus is spreading by sending spam with a link to a video to people on these sites. What makes Koobface particularly dangerous is the virus uses the infected machine to target other systems and distribute additional malware, generate ‘pay per click’ advertising revenue and steal sensitive data.

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