McAfee Lab discovered that the application links of Facebook a popular social-networking website linked up with a malicious Java applet, which posed as being sent from Sun Java Microsystem. McAfee TrustedSource reported this on November 11, 2010.
Elaborating on the assault, McAfee stated that the malware ran even without users loading the Facebook applications to their profiles. Upon accessing one particular Facebook application page that used a language of Eastern Europe, the web-page led onto a malevolent website harboring Java applet posing as "Sun_Microsystems_Java_Security_Update_6" from Sun Java MicroSystmes. Though showing a signature for itself, the file; however, wasn't digitally signed that should work as a red signal for the user.
More: More: More: http://www.spamfighter.com/News-15414-Facebook-Application-Leads-onto-Java-Applet-McAfee.htm
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Elaborating on the assault, McAfee stated that the malware ran even without users loading the Facebook applications to their profiles. Upon accessing one particular Facebook application page that used a language of Eastern Europe, the web-page led onto a malevolent website harboring Java applet posing as "Sun_Microsystems_Java_Security_Update_6" from Sun Java MicroSystmes. Though showing a signature for itself, the file; however, wasn't digitally signed that should work as a red signal for the user.
More: More: More: http://www.spamfighter.com/News-15414-Facebook-Application-Leads-onto-Java-Applet-McAfee.htm
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