McAfee Warns Of KoobFace Worm On Twitter

Posted By Tehseen On July 13, 2009 @ 6:15 pm In Online Security | No Comments

McAfee Avert Labs Blog just announced that the Koobface worm has reached Twitter. Appearantly, users are sent fake tweets with a video link and once they click on that they are prompted to download a video codec. However, instead of downloading a video codec, the malware is downloaded to the hard drive. These variants have been detected as W32/Koobface.worm.gen.e ^[2] and W32/Koobface.worm.gen.h ^[2] by McAfee. What to do if you get a video link? Don't download anything it prompts you for!

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[1] McAfee Avert Labs Blog: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/koobface-worm-turns-toward-twitter/

[2] W32/Koobface.worm.gen.e: http://vil-origin.nai.com/vil/content/v_161113.htm

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