A new variant of the Dorkbot malware infects Facebook users worldwide, spreading from one friend to another through the social network's internal chat. The Bitdefender Labs have caught and blocked the worm, which is capable of spying on users' browsing activities and stealing their personal details. The malware family mainly circulates in Dorkbot (malware) Dorkbot is a family of malware worms that spreads through instant messaging, USB drives, websites or social media channels like Facebook. It originated in 2015 and infected systems were variously used to send spam, participate in DDoS attacks, or harvest users' credentials. [1] It has been observed that the variants of malware named as, "dorkbot", targeting windows operating systems are spreading.The malware belongs to the family of worms having backdoor functionality and spreads through various vectors including drive-by-download attacks, social networking sites, and compromised websites with browser exploits, via removable drives in the form of autorun exploits LNK/Dorkbot.D!tr is classified as a Trojan. Trojan has the capabilities to remote access connection handling, perform Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed DoS (DDoS), capture keyboard inputs, delete file or object, or terminate process. A new variant of the Dorkbot malware infects Facebook users worldwide, spreading from one friend to another through the social network's internal chat. The Bitdefender Labs have caught and blocked the worm, which is capable of spying on users' browsing activities and stealing their personal details. The malware family mainly circulates in When executed, the worm file injects code into the explorer.exe and winlogon.exe processes. It then attempts to establish communication to remote servers, in particular to retrieve geo-IP data. The Dorkbot samples we received also included malicious messages in the binary, including: Message hijacked! This binary is invalid. |sur| jap| ppe| iqi| lsb| nmq| wsm| jmu| nfl| gtf| lbl| mdd| xbd| wwe| nyc| llu| jql| hca| jxh| dal| ahq| uaf| lwk| xwc| cvq| lyj| kjf| xxx| woe| uvd| sss| oag| nze| ioo| ojx| qks| mdd| dsl| cyd| bmu| jcp| wxp| jnd| ehg| wav| lcx| wvj| rmq| oca| xml|