Nowadays, most people own an account to online communities. Social media has become a popular medium for these people to interact with other people through indirect online conversations. Although it has quite a number of advantages, there are obvious disadvantages in using these sites, mainly concerning privacy and security.
Just recently, Facebook users reportedly received Facebook notifications both on email and inside their Facebook accounts asking them to update their account. The notification doesn't look suspicious at all as it appears complete with an icon and a logo of the site. Although 'pros' won't be deceived by these fake mails, there are quite a number of other potential victims, especially kids.
If ever you clicked on the 'update' button, a fake 'FacebookUpdaterTool' will be asked for you to install. Once you have installed it, it will install the Zeus bank Trojan, which can gain access to your bank statements and financial data, said Fred Touchette, the senior security analyst at AppRiver, which blocked a total of 6 million emails of this kind using their filter.
On a related news, anti-virus company Kaspersky has recently announced that they have blocked more malicious URLs than Twitter's filter itself. The company said they used their new tool called Krab Krawler which examines millions of Tweets everyday, blocking any malware links associated with the post.
Affected computers may be redirected to a fake password recovery page when they visit Facebook, Twitter and other online communities. They will receive emails and will be ask to click on the link to proceed on the password changing process, asking you to log in using your old and new passwords, giving them the advantage to gain access to your personal data.
