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technolog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16426824
--- Quote ---A computer worm has stolen 45,000 login credentials from Facebook, security experts have warned.
The data is believed to have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in the UK and France, according to security firm Seculert.
The culprit is a well-known piece of malware - dubbed Ramnit - which has been around since April 2010 and has previously stolen banking details.
Facebook told the BBC that it was looking into the issue.
The latest iteration of the worm was discovered in the labs of security firm Seculert.
"We suspect that the attackers behind Ramnit are using the stolen credentials to login to victims" Facebook accounts and to transmit malicious links to their friends, thereby magnifying the malware"s spread even further," said the researchers on the firm"s blog.
"In addition, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the fact that users tend to use the same password in various web-based services to gain remote access to corporate networks," it added.
"Viral power"
Social networks offer rich pickings for hackers because of the huge amount of personal data that is stored on them. Increasingly malware is being updated for the social networking age.
"It appears that sophisticated hackers are now experimenting with replacing the old-school email worms with more up-to-date social network worms. As demonstrated by the 45,000 compromised Facebook subscribers, the viral power of social networks can be manipulated to cause considerable damage to individuals and institutions when it is in the wrong hands," said Seculert.
According to Seculert, 800,000 machines were infected with Ramnit from September to the end of December 2011.
Microsoft"s Malware Protection Center (MMPC) described Ramnit as "a multi-component malware family which infects Windows executable as well as HTML files... stealing sensitive information such as stored FTP credentials and browser cookies".
In July 2011 a Symantec report estimated that Ramnit worm variants accounted for 17.3% of all new malicious software infections.
For Facebook users concerned that they have been affected by the worm, the advice is to run anti-virus software.
"It won"t necessarily be obvious that you have been attacked. The worm is stealing passwords so it is not going to announce itself," said Graham Cluley, senior security consultant at Sophos.
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Claw75:
slightly concerned that both times I"ve tried to log onto my online banking since this happened I"ve had to enter my password and security code several times (correctly) before they were recognised and accepted. Should I be worried? If I ever log on to online banking from a new computer I get texted a code to use and so far I haven"t had anything to alert me that anyone has tried accessing it and there hasn"t been any unusual activity......
Foggy:
I would air your concerns to the bank immediately, also give them the information of your hacking problem!
I contacted the bank after my original hacking and cancelled my bank card, they have subsequently issued a new one.
Following the paypal transaction with Carl, the twats tried to transfer £250 into paypal, the bank stopped this immediately.
Apart from my loss at Pokerstars, I think that my security is better then ever, but I will be a lot more vigilant into doing anything online in the future.
Jon MW:
One of my hotmail accounts got compromised, but it doesn"t look like it was the same sort of thing as the others.
This just looks like a brute force hack then they sent out dodgy spam to everyone in my address book, changed the details and running scans but it"s the account I use for general use so there"s not much on it regarding anything that needs to be kept secure.
Pitchie:
--- Quote from: Jon MW on January 08, 2012, 23:29:01 PM ---
One of my hotmail accounts got compromised, but it doesn"t look like it was the same sort of thing as the others.
This just looks like a brute force hack then they sent out dodgy spam to everyone in my address book, changed the details and running scans but it"s the account I use for general use so there"s not much on it regarding anything that needs to be kept secure.
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I rarely use my hotmail account and noticed a while back (after an email from a friend) that it had been compromised. Even over this period of time they"d only sent spam. Nothing malicious so to speak.
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