Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Security Alert: Malicious Facebook Password Spam

 Websense® Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered a new wave of malicious email attacks claiming to be a password reset confirmation from Facebook.
 
The From: address on the messages is spoofed using support@facebook.com to make the messages believable to recipients. The messages contain a .zip file attachment with an .exe file inside.
 
The .exe file currently has a detection rate of about 30 percent on VirusTotal.
Our ThreatSeeker Network has seen up to 90,000 of these messages sent out so far today.

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