Now you mentioned in various news, cybercrime have to look at social networks and again it's up to Facebook. The virus worm and IRC MultiSPAM looking cookies social networking and downloading malicious code from Web sites to obtain information on bank account details and passwords.

The rise of social networks has led to cybercrime to use these platforms to get to reach more users. Although Facebook is making efforts to prevent their social network were infected by viruses and spam, by warning users about potential attacks, recently was spreading the virus Koobface.

As explained by McAfee in his blog, users receive a spam message from one of his friends with the subject "Sales in this brilliant new video", which redirects to a page where they warn that the version of Flash is outdated and we have to update it to able to watch the video. If the user opens the file or download flash_player.exe an error message and will be installed on a computer program that records the data bank and information of the keys, and forward the spam message to the contacts you have.

Craig Schmugar, a researcher at McAfee, insists that although Facebook is struggling to overcome this problem, there are dozens of variants of Koobface, so it is more likely to worsen the situation, to improve. "

In this context, more than ever, the advice is not to click on any link unknown to be received on the network, e-mail or IM, even though they were sent by someone who knows. It's best to make sure first asking the sender about the link you've sent.

Moreover, in the case of links, it is always better to install software and updates from original sources (such as Adobe in this case), before relying on the contents provided by third parties.

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