Have you remember about the treat of Koobface to Facebook? Now this virus looking for one more social sites called Bebo. Actually Bebo is a social blogging site which so far having 45 million users worldwide.
As what happen to facebook, Bebo member also will received ‘messages’ from their friends with subjects such as ‘You look awesome in this movie’. Following the link prompts them to download updates, such as an updated video player.
ScanSafe detected the virus’s now jump to Bebo.Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, said: ‘Those who click on the link will be greeted with a message that they need to update their Flash player to view the ‘video’. There is no video nor is there an update – it is all just a ruse to get users to infect their own system by installing the Trojan”
The same caution over the past half dozen years still remains true: don’t click on links in emails received unexpectedly, even if that email appears to be from someone you know.’
Earlier, Social network MySpace, owned by News Corp, was hit by a version of Koobface in August and used security technology to eradicate it. The virus has not cropped up since then.
Facebook where the second place to be their target has told members to delete contaminated e-mails and has posted directions at www.facebook.com/security on how to clean infected computers.