Attackers spread worm via Facebook, leverage cloud services
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Facebook users who clicked an Ow.ly link in a post promising pornographic content may have become infected with a worm – believed to belong to the Kilim family – that then spread the same link to all of their contacts and groups, according to a Thursday post by Malwarebytes.
Kilim targets social media networks – particularly Facebook and Twitter – by installing a rogue extension within the Google Chrome browser, Jerome Segura, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, told SCMagazine.com in a Friday email correspondence. The malware can be used to post new messages, like a page, follow users and send direct messages, he explained.
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