Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook - OFF TOPIC

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Dec 4 - BOSTON

(Reuters) - Facebook's 120 million users are being

targeted by a virus dubbed " Koobface " that

uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then

tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers.

It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to

prey on users of social networking sites.

" A few other viruses have tried to use Facebook in similar ways to propagate themselves, " Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt

said in an e-mail. He said a " very small

percentage of users " had been affected by these viruses.

" It is on the rise, relative to other threats like

e-mails, " said Craig Schmugar, a researcher with

McAfee Inc.

Koobface

spreads by sending notes to……….

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4B37LV20081204

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