New Password-Stealing Virus Targets Facebook

by Philip Johnson on March 18, 2010 · View Comments

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(Reuters) – Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.

via reuters.com

I was wondering what was going on. Strange photo comments, invites to “free movie download” groups from friends I never talk to, etc. And I thought the Twitter phishing scams were annoying…ugh.

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