Facebook Messenger is the second largest text messaging platform on the planet, and unfortunately it is attacked by hackers constantly. In this idea, today we are talking about a very dangerous new virus that was discovered by Kaspersky Labs, tricking people into clicking on unknown links in Facebook Messenger, and they are also distributed directly on Facebook.
Facebook Messenger is used to distribute this virus because it has a very large number of monthly active users, so hackers have a way to distribute the virus to the wider world. Ordinary users are tricked into accessing unknown links shared through Facebook Messenger, or just Facebook, and thus infect their computers with software created by hackers.
Facebook Messenger is a good way to share the virus because people generally click on links shared by people they know. Hackers also create fake websites that resemble other popular ones, and that's how they end up taking a lot of data from gullible users, phishing attacks bringing huge amounts of money to hackers who know how to do them well.
Facebook Messenger – The Very Dangerous New Virus
Facebook Messenger is now attacked by a virus that uses multiple internet domains to mask fake websites, it also attacks multiple operating systems. Facebook Messenger users click on unknown links without knowing what is behind them and are often directed to websites that are clones of the real ones, asking them for bank details, usernames, etc., but the information is actually sent to hackers.
Facebook Messenger is just one of the promotion mechanisms, and in general we are talking about messages in which a user is mentioned and a video clip is recommended. There is of course also a form link bit.ly/xxxxx, and this is the one that makes the effective direction to the hackers' website, where the user leaves, without knowing, the price information he has.
"One good thing about having a lot of Facebook friends is that you simply act as a honey pot when your friends click on malicious things. The initial spreading mechanism seems to be Facebook Messenger, but how it actually spreads via Messenger is still unknown."
Facebook Messenger has been used in the past as a platform for spreading viruses and will continue to be used for these purposes. The very high popularity of Facebook's platform is the main "problem" that the American company has, but it is normal since hackers always seek to attack only platforms that have a very large number of people and from which they can generate a lot of money by distributing this type of software.
