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Basketball, Facebook and Gossip Are Malware Targets (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

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Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads.

Posted by yahoosecuritynews on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 4:55 pm 
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Facebook users warned of email scam (WAVY TV 10 Portsmouth)

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CNET news is warning Facebook users to avoid a potentially dangerous scam targeted circulating via e-mail.

Posted by yahoosecuritynews on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10:54 am 
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Facebook Users Targeted in Massive Spam Run (CIO)

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Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.

Posted by yahoosecuritynews on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 11:09 am 
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Virus Could Infect 400 Million Facebook Users (FOX 17 Grand Rapids)

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A major warning for all 400 million Facebook users. One of the leading anti- virus software companies says you or your friends could easily be infected with spyware that's capable of stealing your personal information.

Posted by yahoosecuritynews on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 6:49 am 
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Scam of the Day – Bredos targeting Facebook

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Today we have seen a surge in emails pretending to be from the social networking site Facebook.

The message suggests that Facebook has modified the user’s password to enhance user safety and that the new password is in a attached document. The message looks like this:

Hey XXXXXXX ,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team.
------------5GHH3B84G384ABF1
Content-Type: application/zip; name="Facebook_details_345.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Facebook_details_345.zip"
UEsDBBQAAAAIAPSxcTxpN05+ldoAAAD4AAAYAAAARmFjZWJvb2tfZGV0YWls
c18zNDUuZXhllPZjsDBczC0IHp/zHNu2bdu2bdu2bdu2bdu2bc57vzvdNVM9
VdOdqlSSnbXXTvInW0YzHgAcAAAA5D/9+wMAMFMAAIiuBQDgB/j/L/7/KTtc
ZXFhnhANTySV9AyBsrmFE769o52Zo4ENvpGBra2dM76hCb6jiy2+hS2+sJwS
vo2dsQktDAwk8f+bQ14EAEAaEBgAdPJS9P/g3QeAA4QCRAD+zwEAwP9P6QEB

The attachment is called “Facebook_details_<some number>.zip”. This attachment is malicious and should not be opened.

Sophos detected this file as Troj/BredoZp-AD and the executable inside the zip file as Troj/Bredo-BN.

Posted by Prashant Kumar, SophosLabs AU on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:07 am 
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