![]() It then conveniently offers a link to download and install the update. When this video is clicked, the victim is directed to a fake web page that states the video cannot be loaded because an update for Adobe Flash Player is needed. ![]() Mostly it spreads through a tempting message or post that contains a video. When social connections or friends of the victim clicks on the infected links, they become infected automatically. Koobface spreads itself by putting links on the social network profile of a user whose machine which it is infecting. This virus is believed to around since 2008 but got active again in Dec 2017. It is estimated that facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus called “Koobface” that uses the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, which tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers.
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