New Facebook Email Virus can Steal Passwords

One of the biggest and most popular social media network, Facebook, has been made the target again. Intelligent anti-virus company McAfee has reported that the social networking site has been hit by a virus which aims to steal passwords as well as other sensitive information from the user’s account. Some 400 million users are currently registered with Facebook and have been declared highly vulnerable.

The comes acts in a different way and comes via an email which declares that the specific user’s password has been reset due to technical reasons. All Facebook accounts are going through the same and due to which the user needs to reset the password. Further on the user is asked to click and download the attachment which contains the new password and login details. Upon downloading and opening of the document the attachment unleashes a group of Trojans, which also include the password stealing software.

The anti-virus company McAfee reported:

This threat is potentially very dangerous considering that there are over 350 million Facebook users who could fall for this scam.

This is not the first attack on the social media, Hackers have targeted the site before sending them messages via the company’s own internal system. But this being a little different, the attack is being used with a regular Internet email address. McAfee has estimated that the hackers have sent tens of thousands of emails worldwide which has already targeted a lot in the United States and Europe.

A helpful note for the Facebook users. The email is titled “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support”, please beware and upon receiving the email delete it immediately.