09 February 2010
The following (or similar) email is currently in circulation and should be ignored. The email appears to be addressed From: "Facebook Login" < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Support Message and contains an attachment, eg Facebook_password_245.zip or Facebook_password_37413.zip. Please note that the numbers before the .zip may vary.Do not open the attached zip file as it contains a trojan that will install a fake spyware program similar to Vista Antispyware 2010. Delete the email immediately.
From: "Facebook Login" <
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
>
Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Support Message.
Dear user of facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
Your Facebook.
If you have received a suspicious email from UPS, Westpac, Myspace
etc asking you to open the attached file then this article explains
what happens when the attachment is opened. The attachment contains a
rogue .exe application which installs Zbot Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Support Message.
Dear user of facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
Your Facebook.
Trojan
on your computer.
Examples of infectious attachments include: UPS_invoice_Nr19373.zip and Facebook_password_37413.zip. Please note that the numbers before the .zip may vary.
Zbot Trojan, aka Infostealer automatically sends financial information like Internet banking login credentials and credit card details.
It also deactivates the Windows firewall when means your computer has no protection from hackers wanting to control your infected computer.
At the time of writing this article many of the current antivirus applications cannot detect this Trojan.
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