Users are being tricked into visiting pages containing virus through e-mails which claim users have been tagged in photos on Facebook .
The messages are from address which is misspelled as "Faceboook.com" and the users on clicking are directed to website which hosts malicious code including the Blackhole kit which tries to gain control of user's system .
Further , the malicious website redirects the users to actual Facebook.com once the infection occurs , so that users do not realize they have been attacked net security firm Sophos reports .
More details about the malware Troj-JSRedir-HW can be found here
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The messages are from address which is misspelled as "Faceboook.com" and the users on clicking are directed to website which hosts malicious code including the Blackhole kit which tries to gain control of user's system .
Further , the malicious website redirects the users to actual Facebook.com once the infection occurs , so that users do not realize they have been attacked net security firm Sophos reports .
More details about the malware Troj-JSRedir-HW can be found here
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