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When Koobface spoils your day?

To be honest, you can’t do anything save cursing yourself that why you fell for such a trap. Those phishing scams have been wreaking havoc on almost every social networking site and Facebook has topped the list. This is definitely due to the massive 350 Million population and the countless apps out there that users find appealing, which makes it easier for scammers to through the right bait and phish them. And these scammers follow trends, very intelligently and today we have an alert on Koobface; the Christmas killer.

The current trend are the applications for Christmas and no time has been wasted to send those worms via greetings for Christmas. It comes embedded in a link, once you hit it, users are directed to a fake embedded video player and while that video goes ahead, the worm digs into your system and its called Koobface.GK. Once it has been installed, users see a threat of a system shutdown in three minutes, which of course doesn’t happen all by itself, but you can’t do much about the system since it hangs up. Now if you do enter the captcha, a new domain is registered by Koobface which ensures that the worm continues to spread even further and deeper.

This isn’t something new, I mean trendy worms have been in fashion for quite some time, since holiday themed attack attracts lesser suspicion from victims. And with the massive boom in social networks, that makes it ever more easy for such scams to make way easily. I mean even after this warning and by the time people have actually read this post a good number would have fallen prey to it and wondering why they couldn’t learn about it earlier.

Has anyone of you ever fallen prey to such scams? What sort? Please share your story with us.