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[RobyPC] Malware on Facebook: When run, this downloader downloads another Trojan from a remote server, which has been added as Troj/Agent-HJX. It also downloads and displays an innocent image from a popular download site, and saves it to the Windows folder as joke.gif.
[Technibble] Facebook Malware: Fraser Howard, the author of the blog entry at Sophos, notes that although it looks like it is a google link, it does not actually go to a google page. When users clicks on the URL of the message, they will receive a malware with a filename of picture_dl.exe.
[The Great Geek Manual News] Hackers Use Facebook for Malware Attack: Instead, the Facebook users were tricked into installing a Trojan horse. Security firm Sophos discovered the Facebook hacker attack, and Facebook has since contacted victims and placed a block to protect the site.
[Industry Standard News and Predictions] Facebook stamps out malware attack: Then, an image of a court jester sticking his tongue out would appear, making it seem to Facebook members like an innocent practical joke by a friend. In fact, at that point, the PC had been seriously compromised and put in the control of malicious hackers for sending spam, distributing malware and performing other harmful actions, according to Sophos.
[Emerging Threats] Weekly New Signatures August 9 2008: User-Agent (antispyprogram) (emerging-malware.rules) 2008496 - ET TROJAN Unknown Initial Checkin (emerging.rules) 2008497 - ET TROJAN Unknown Checkin (emerging.rules) 2008498 - ET CURRENT_EVENTS Likely Facebook Malware Download .
[Industry Standard News and Predictions] Malicious hackers use Facebook Wall for malware attack: The friend whose name appears with the video has had his PC or Facebook account compromised in some way that lets malicious hackers perform actions without the friend's knowledge. It's possible that the affected friend previously fell for the "court jester" trap, and his PC and Facebook accounts are being used to propagate the scheme, he said.
[NP-Incomplete] Dispatches from Blackhat/Defcon: Facebook/MySpace "Worm": The interesting part of this incident is that attackers, the media, end users, and vendors are focusing on this as a social networking story and not a desktop malware story, when it is equal parts of both. It is further evidence to me that desktops are being considered by home users to be nothing more than browser containers, with their activities being almost completely focused around a handful of major (social) web properties.
[Gadgetell] Facebook hit with malware attack: Facebook recently came under attack by hackers who are posting malicious links on the Wall section of user profiles. The links urge the user to click on them to view a video hosted by Google, but in reality the link takes them to a compromised page with another link that claims to be an update for Adobe Flash.
[Industry Standard News and Predictions] Sophos: Facebook Malware Attack Puts Work Computers at Risk: At that point your users should say'No, I don't,'" said Cluely. "People have got to learn that clicking on links in messages to websites can lead to a malware infection, whether the messages are in your email or on a site like Facebook."
[Alan Spicer Marine Telecom Main BLOG] Don't download Software in order to Play Videos (Facebook or ...: According to Sophos, messages left on Facebook users' walls are urging members to view a video, which appears to be hosted on a Google website. But users who click on the link are taken to a site which urges them to download an executable file to watch the movie, according said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.
[Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com] Wallpaper Turns Blue & Antivirus 2008 XP Malware Infection - Going ...: O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
[TipAdept Dot Com] Hackers Use Facebook for Malware Attack: Hackers, impersonating members' friends, attacked Facebook by convincing users on Facebook's Wall to view a video link that they said was hosted by Google. The Wall is a place were members post messages for friends.
[ASTALAVISTA - the hacking and security community - Blog messages] Facebook users struck by new "court jester" malware attack: "People have got to learn that clicking on links in messages to websites can lead to a malware infection, whether the messages are in your email or on a site like Facebook. There has been a flurry of malicious emails recently posing as links to videos - so there's really no excuse not to know of this trick being commonly used by hackers at the moment,"
[e-Tech Gadget Blog] Facebook hit with malware attack: Facebook recently came under attack by hackers who are posting malicious links on the Wall section of user profiles. The links urge the user to click on them to view a video hosted by Google, but in reality the link takes them to a compromised page with another link that claims to be an update for Adobe Flash.
[George's Wonder Blog] MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter attacked by social engineering ...: In other words if you didn’t already know it, Adobe is the only source for reliable Flash downloads, and so far as I know the only source for Flash downloads at all.
[Spyget] Facebook Responding To Malware Threat: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :.] Security firm warns of malware attack on Facebook: “Whether this really is a Facebook worm, and not simply malware being distributed via Facebook spam remains to be seen,” a blog post by Sophos .
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