COMPUTER A new malware is circulating on the messaging of the giant californian via an image which, once opened, request the opening of a dangerous program…
last October, a virus cracking down on Facebook Messenger, transmitted via a link to a video loaded with explosives, had been detected. Now, it is a malware hidden in pictures circulating on the instant messaging. In some cases, the attack could even install the ransomware Locky on the users ‘ terminal too unsuspecting.
It is in any case what the it security expert Peter Kruse has said this Monday in SC Magazine. However, as shown in 01Net, Facebook wants to be reassuring and indicates that no image trapped circulating on his Messenger has not led to the installation of the software that demands money to stop blocking the machines it infected.
The threat of other viruses is, however, real. It is manifested by the arrival in a conversation thread on Facebook Messenger of a frame format. SVG. Once opened, the file directs users browsing in Chrome to a page asking to download an extension.
If they run, the unwary users to see information related to the visited Web sites and their logins hacked. Their system becomes vulnerable to new attacks afterward and the photo bomb is sent to their contacts on Facebook Messenger.
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