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Users of Facebook and MySpace attacked by the worm Boface.G

PandaLabs, the detection and analysis laboratory of Panda Security's malware, has detected a new worm, Boface.G, which is spreading among users of social networks Facebook and MySpace.

This worm appears to publish a direct link to a fake YouTube video in the profiles or in the "wall" of the infected user's contacts or send them a private message with the same link. If those contacts try to see the video (which seems to come from his friend or acquaintance) are redirected to the page you are asked to download a Flash Player update to see video. If they do, they will be introducing a copy of the worm on your computer and begin to turn, infect all your contacts.

"Social networks attract millions of users, that is why we have become a tool increasingly used by cyber criminals to spread their malicious creations," says Luis Corrons, "technical director of PandaLabs," a council basic for users of these social networks that would seek to confirm the origin of these messages before following any links or perform any suspicious download to your computer. "

PandaLabs has been told, one of the two social networks concerned and is taking steps to protect its users against the spread of this malware. Panda users have been at all times protected against this worm.

Barack Obama

PandaLabs, the detection and analysis laboratory of Panda Security's malware, has detected several malicious emails announcing news about Barack Obama supposedly being used to distribute malware, in particular, is being distributed in this way the Banker Banker.LLN and the worm Asniffer.F.

The format of these abusive e-mail is very similar: they are emails in which the striking issue is accompanied by a link in the body which provides access to an image, text or video of the news in question. If the user clicks the link, be infected with some kind of malware (worms, trojans, adware, viruses, etc..).

This technique is known as social engineering. Cybercriminals use current affairs, false news and issues and appealing to entice users to click on links or execute malicious files, so that their computers end up infected with malware

"Throughout the campaign we had detected several spam runs by claiming the two candidates. Once he met the winner of the election, Barack Obama, malicious shipments began using it only as a claim ", explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs.

Using these primers were distributed several types of malware such as the Banker Banker.LLN that modifies the hosts file on infected computers, redirecting connection attempts to different banking websites to 127.0.0.1 to show a fake page and capture banking information from users.

Another example is the spam reports that Barack Obama has become the 44th president of the United States and the first to be an African American president and attach a link to a fake website that pretend to be the domain America.gov. There along with the text of the news, you will be able to view another video course, although this will require an upgrade install adobe flash "adobe_flash9.exe", which is actually malware Asniffer.F.

This worm is downloaded also accompanied by a Asniffer.G rootkit to evade detection. This malicious code is designed to capture traffic from the infected computer to collect information on ftp connections, icq, pop3, imap, etc.

PandaLabs advises users not to execute any files or follow any link that comes to us through an unsolicited email.