Scams like this is actually already been done by the virus last Kolab around September 2011. But this time the attack was carried out by a virus is detected as Trojan Generic 6956508. But he obviously similar, but the way to infiltrate and character of this virus is quite unique.
As images are attached below. The potential victims are getting messages from friends on Facebook that contains a link to a particular site, and if clicked, then the virus will be downloaded automatically to a user's computer.
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| Trojan Generic 6956508 |
Trojan Generic 6956508 is one type of Zbot malware that has the ability to transform themselves so it is difficult to detect by antivirus applications, even the most updated version once.
If you see Facebook users continues to increase, I wonder if this social networking as one of the major media spread of the virus. Whereas in previous years the spread of viruses like this are only found in applications such as IM, Skype, GTalk, and MSN Messenger. Attacks of this type are increasingly difficult to detect because the use pemendek url like bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl, and others
