FaceTime Warns of ‘W32.heartworm.a’
FaceTime has warned the Internet users from ‘W32.heartworm.a’, a new IM threat that targets MSN Messenger users. The threat steals the users’ banking and personal data.
FaceTime has warned the Internet users from ‘W32.heartworm.a’, a new IM threat that targets MSN Messenger users. The threat steals the users’ banking and personal data.
The threat brings a link ‘virtual card waiting for you’ to the users. Users who click on this link see an image of a heart with a poem in Portuguese. The picture infects the computer and then passes on to the contacts added in MSN Messenger.
FaceTime has advised the MSN Messenger users to not to click on links sent to them by other users, even if users appear on their contact list.
Wayne Porter, senior director of special research at FaceTime Security Labs, said: “This is a form of cultural camouflage which we call ‘hoax cloaking’. It is a defensive construct that adopts the very lore, memes, myth and culture of the Internet to serve as a self-preservation and cloaking mechanism.
People using trusted search engines to verify the message will find most reputable security companies and hoax-debunking sites confirm it as a myth and disregard it as harmless”. [source]
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FaceTime is a provider of security solutions enabling businesses to secure and control greynet applications such as instant messaging, adware/spyware, webmail, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice.
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