It seems that starting yesterday many Facebook.com users are facing similar trends “Your friend tagged you in a photo”. But upon opening the photo, it is a photo of a popular game Sims 2. Some of the photos are titled “The Sims 3757″ and “The Sims 4655″. What seems to be the problem is that 150 over people were tagged in the same photo and the photo owner was not the person who uploaded the photo.
How did it get uploaded in the first place? Could it be some rogue application the user has allowed access into their profile? Some users even reported that their Facebook Wall was bombarded with hundreds of announcement. The photo also comes with a suspicious link (hxxp:\tryntry.com) that we suggest you not to visit as to not compromise your Facebook account details.
For the time being, please delete the photo from your album until we hear further news from Facebook.com.
It wasn’t such a big issue last December but Downadup has taken over about 1.9 million unpatch Windows-based computers to date as reported on F-Secure Blog. Downadup or some vendors might call it Conficker or Kido exploits the PC through the MS08-067 vulnerability.
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Damballa Inc. an internet security company based in Georgia - specialized in BotArmies recently discovered a worldwide mega infection of botnets and had given it a name “Kraken“. Botnets are large networks of computers being command and controlled like a zombie. The name was probably derived from which Kraken(a legendary sea monster) is seen infecting more than 400,000 computers more than the current Storm Worm of 200,000 computers.
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Thanks to Abhor Network and Sunbelt for for alerting us about the new Storm activity. The picture of a Joker holding out an April Fool message is trying to lure users into downloading a Storm worm. The link to the Storm website arrives in your mailbox with all sorts of April Fool’s subject headers. Once at the malicious website, it will try to download either a file with name foolsday.exe, funny.exe or kickme.exe. As of now, majority of anti-virus software may not have the signature for this variant - take necessary precaution.
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