ESET Threat Blog

Earlier this month, we reported on the massive new Koobface campaign making the rounds through Facebook and how it tricked users into downloading and running it through that tenet of social engineering, the fake codec. We now have a video showing how the Koobface worm tricks users into running it:

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As promised earlier (see http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/07/https-revisited-spanish-video) an English version of ESET Latin-America’s demonstration video of a phishing attack using HTTPS is now available at http://www.eset-la.com/centro-amenazas/videos/phishing-https-english/.
 Those earlier blogs again:

http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/06/ssl-to-certify-web-security-is-not-to-guarantee-it 
http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2009/10/04/truth-fiction-and-https 

 Thanks, Sebastián!
David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
Director of Malware Intelligence
ESET LLC
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