With Facebook's popularity comes the unwanted attention of hackers. While this attack on affected a smaller number of the total Facebook user population - it won't be the last attack. Social media users will need add some variety when creating social network accounts. And yes, your shouldn't use the same passwords for every account you have.
A server
housing tens of thousands of stolen Facebook credentials was
discovered--and it turns out the attackers employed a new version of an
existing worm to pilfer the goods.
Researchers at Seculert say the attackers used a
new variant of the Ramnit worm, which is best known as a financial
malware family that steals FTP credentials and most recently morphed
into a Zeus-like weapon that performs HTML code injection into browsers
to steal online banking credentials. Ramnit represents some 17% of all
new malware infections, according to Symantec data.
"This is a variant which expands the
financial-stealing of the previous version and now steals Facebook login
credentials," said Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert.
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