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Malware that stole 45,000 Facebook logins highlights security hole from cloud

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A worm designed to steal directly from both banks and consumers by covertly grabbing online bank logins has gone social, collecting the email addresses and Facebook passwords of 45,000 users so far as it has spread across Facebook.

Ramnit is a phenomenally successful family of malicious apps that was responsible for as many as 17.3 percent of all new malware infections, according to a Symantec report published in July, 2011 (PDF).

By August the virus, which had been designed to infect Windows apps and HTML files, "went financial" after source code for the Zeus bank-attack malware development kit leaked, allowing Ramnit developers to add many of Zeus' most successful exploits to the Ramnit toolbox.   More...

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