{"id":268,"date":"2008-12-09T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:02:00","slug":"fakebook-koobface-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Fakebook: Koobface Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Facebook, then you should read <a title=\"Facebook Koobface Virus\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/hi\/technology\/newsid_7773000\/7773340.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> from the BBC about the Koobface virus that has been playing havoc on Facebook. Below is a snippet of the article, but follow the link to read it all on the BBC site.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Koobface&#8217; spreads by sending a message to people&#8217;s inboxes, pretending to be from a Facebook friend. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It says &#8220;you look funny in this new video&#8221; or &#8220;you look just awesome in this new video&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By clicking on the link provided they&#8217;re then asked to watch a &#8220;secret video by Tom&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When users try and play the video they&#8217;re asked to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If they do, that&#8217;s when the virus takes hold and attacks the computer. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly this dovetails nicely with a post I made called <a title=\"You Don't Know Jack\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2008\/08\/11\/you-dont-know-jack\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t know Jack&#8221;<\/a> back in August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Facebook, then you should read this article from the BBC about the Koobface virus that has been playing havoc on Facebook. Below is a snippet of the article, but follow the link to read it all on the BBC site. &#8216;Koobface&#8217; spreads by sending a message to people&#8217;s inboxes, pretending to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[13,14,16,76,17,77,19],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-tech-stuff","tag-facebook","tag-identity","tag-phishing","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-virus","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}