Malware Uses porn video to infect 110000 Facebook users

Facebook porn malware

Facebook porn malware

Users of most popular social networking platform Facebook are at risk due to a new malware. This new malware has already infected more than 110,000 Facebook users in just two days.

The Facebook malware is disguised as a Flash update which is required to see a porn video link. Clicking on this video will take a you to a website which will ask you to upgrade flash player plugin. If you do your system will be infected with a Trojan. This Trojan will high jack your mouse and keyboard. Once your own system is infected, it will start posting porn links to your Facebook walls. It will also tag few of your friends on the post.

This malware collects the data of your system and tries to communicate with the server behind the filmver.com and pornokan.com domains.

As the malware post porn video link, people are more likely to click on the video link.

Facebook has already confirmed the issue and started blocking this fake link. So, there is no need to worry now. But avoid clicking on any porn link if you see on your Facebook news feed.

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