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- Bogus Facebook Messenger Installer Leads to a Backdoor
Social networking sites have become the preferred medium for connecting with friends and family as well as for sharing information. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this fact, launching targeted attacks on social media users. While these attacks are not entirely new, they remain persistent.
In line with this, TrendLabs engineers recently found a new threat that may imperil Facebook users.
The malicious file (aka FacebookMessengerSetup.exe), detected as BKDR_QUEJOB.EVL, arrives via spammed messages posing as a Facebook notification. The email message urges the recipient to click a URL to view a certain message. Clicking the URL, however, leads to the automatic download of the fake application installer.