Ouch. MySpace is back in the news and not in a pleasant light. It appears that some hackers were leveraging the popular social networking site for distributing malware. The trojan software in question is a fake Microsoft update.
From PC World:
Web surfers are presented with what appears to be a popup window advising them to download the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which was just released this Tuesday. This software is distributed by Microsoft to help Windows users rid their systems of malware.
In reality, the popup window is just part of a larger image that takes up most of the computer screen. If the user clicks anywhere on this image, his computer will then begin to download the Trojan program.
The Trojan, known as TFactory, is a well-known piece of code that has been used by criminals for well over a year, according to Dave Marcus, a security research manager with McAfee.
More reason to be sure that your antivirus software is up to date and your patches are applied…from the source.
[tags]MySpace Trojan, MySpace, MySpace Malware, TFactory[/tags]
