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FacexWorm Targets Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms, Abuses Facebook Messenger for Propagation
  • Posted on:April 30, 2018 at 6:03 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Author:
    Joseph C Chen (Fraud Researcher)
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Our Cyber Safety Solutions team identified a malicious Chrome extension we named FacexWorm, which uses a miscellany of techniques to target cryptocurrency trading platforms accessed on an affected browser and propagates via Facebook Messenger.

FacexWorm isn’t new. It was uncovered in August 2017, though its whys and hows were still unclear at the time. Last April 8, however, we noticed a spike in its activities that coincided with external reports of FacexWorm surfacing in Germany, Tunisia, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Spain.

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Tags: ChromecryptocurrencyFacebookFacexWormMessengermining

GhostTeam Adware can Steal Facebook Credentials
  • Posted on:January 18, 2018 at 12:03 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Mobile, Social
  • Author:
    Mobile Threat Response Team
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We uncovered a total of 53 apps on Google Play that can steal Facebook accounts and surreptitiously push ads. Many of these apps, which were published as early as April 2017, seemed to have been put out on Google Play in a wave. Detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_GHOSTTEAM, many of the samples we analyzed are in Vietnamese, including their descriptions on Google Play.

Their command-and-control (C&C) server points to mspace[.]com[.]vn. This, along with the considerable use of Vietnamese language, may indicate that the apps were from Vietnam. For instance, GhostTeam’s configurations are in English and Vietnamese. English will be the default language if the malware detects the geolocation to be outside Vietnam.

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Tags: adwareFacebookGhostTeam

Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner Spreading via Facebook Messenger
  • Posted on:December 21, 2017 at 6:01 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Social
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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We found a new cryptocurrency-mining bot spreading through Facebook Messenger, which we first observed in South Korea. We named this Digmine based on the moniker (비트코인 채굴기 bot) it was referred to in a report of recent related incidents in South Korea. We’ve also seen Digmine spreading in other regions such as Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, and Venezuela. It’s not far-off for Digmine to reach other countries given the way it propagates.

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Tags: cryptocurrency minerDigmineFacebook

Reconnaissance via Professional Social Networks
  • Posted on:June 2, 2015 at 9:47 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Cedric Pernet (Threat Researcher)
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Are professional social media sites the weak link in companies’ security strategies? Before (and during) a targeted attack, information about the target organization and its employees is useful to an attacker. This can be used to craft well-designed social engineering attacks that are more likely to be opened by its targets. It can also provide more…

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Tags: Facebookintelligence gatheringLinkedInreconnaissancesocial networkstargeted attacks

Chrome Lure Used in Facebook Attack despite Google’s New Policy
  • Posted on:May 26, 2015 at 10:39 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Social
  • Author:
    Christopher Talampas (Fraud Analyst)
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Just how effective is it for cybercriminals to keep using Google Chrome and Facebook to infect their victims with malware? We’ve already seen both platforms be used as parts of malicious social engineering schemes. Both Google and Facebook are aware of this and have taken steps to protect their users. The number of times malicious…

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Tags: FacebookGoogle ChromeKILIM
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