When I saw this on Facebook a few minutes ago, I was hoping it would turn out to be one of those scary false alerts.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45889138/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.TwZejYEzCls
By Matt Liebowitz
Jan. 5, 2012
The infamous "Ramnit" computer worm has taken on a new life as a piece of financial malware, and it's currently spreading through Facebook and scooping up thousands of users' login credentials.
Researchers at the Israeli firm Seculert found a variant of Ramnit that has stolen more than 45,000 Facebook users' credentials, mostly United Kingdom and French users, and infected approximately 800,000 machines from September to December 2011.
Spreading through wall posts with links to rigged websites, the new Ramnit worm takes a page from the Zeus Trojan, stealing people's Facebook account information and using it to target their online banking details.
Ramnit can "bypass two-factor authentication and transaction signing systems, gain remote access to financial institutions, compromise online banking sessions and penetrate several corporate networks," Seculert wrote in a blog post Thursday.
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The hackers behind the reworked Ramnit Facebook worm have their sights set on more than just targets' banking credentials, Seculert said. The attackers, "are taking advantage of the fact that users tend to use the same password in various Web-based services (Facebook, Gmail, Corporate SSL VPN, Outlook Web Access, etc.) to gain remote access to corporate networks."
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