Social networks are particularly interesting for malware authors because they can be leveraged to spread an infection starting with a single person.
Patient zero can transmit the piece of malware to all of his contacts which in turn do the same, quickly becoming viral and affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
We came across a worm that we think belongs to the Kilim family and whose purpose is to compromise a user and spread via Facebook.
more here........https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/03/new-facebook-worm-variant-leverages-multiple-cloud-services/
Patient zero can transmit the piece of malware to all of his contacts which in turn do the same, quickly becoming viral and affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
We came across a worm that we think belongs to the Kilim family and whose purpose is to compromise a user and spread via Facebook.
more here........https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/03/new-facebook-worm-variant-leverages-multiple-cloud-services/