Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street as Koobface worms its way into Facebook and MySpace

Davey Winder
Friday, 01 August 2008 15:24

Your IT - Home IT

This executable is a file called codesetup.exe, and happens to be a network worm. If you have visited via Facebook you are sent the MySpace worm and vice-versa. Damn clever these cyber-crime chaps...

Kaspersky Lab warns that even though the worms are currently only infecting MySpace and Facebook users "the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used for spreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes."

Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab told us "Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by 'friends' on social networking sites. So the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high. At the beginning of 2008 we predicted that we'd see an increase in cyber-criminals exploiting MySpace, Facebook and similar sites, and we're now seeing evidence of this."