Credentials Theft Attempt by Using Facebook Remote Login Program
By Jason on May 5, 2010 | Computer Security, Facebook, Sunbelt, flash drive, theft
It seems like a new malicious program is not a surprise for anyone these days. However, hackers are really creative and strongly motivated for inventing a new ways of stealing computer user's personal information.
Recently a security researcher Christopher Boyd attended a new Facebook password-stealing threat. A Sunbelt employee detected a program F quiz 1-3-9. He's pretty sure it was spread through the flash drive which was left into the PC long enough.
Christopher Boyd at Sunbelt blog says that anyone using this program should consider to change their Facebook passwords if they want to prevent a theft.
When the program starts a new web page loads automatically by trying to trick you into thinking that you are legitimate for the program. It acts like a real software and asks the user for their name, email and password, then pops up a promising "loading soon" message.
The program is designed in a smart way because the program loads a fake list which has to convince user that the application makes an effort to fix things. After that the program blames a firewall for not entering a Facebook account. At mean time, a text file is created on the flash drive, containing user`s login and password details.
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