{"id":9264,"date":"2019-08-12T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2019-08-22T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:07:04","slug":"fb-messenger-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2019\/08\/12\/fb-messenger-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fb Messenger virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Got a message from a coworker that suggested I was in a video. Naturally, I am supposed to click on it, but it felt wrong. A quick Duck Duck Go search revealed it to be a virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you think a virus was installed on your device, then my advice is to find a trusted anti-virus software to scan your computer. There are also malware apps to scan & protect your phone. Some carriers offer them for free.<\/p>\n

Some reports suggest if you click on it, then you get a Facebook login page.<\/h3>\n

Only, it is not a real one and designed to capture your credentials. That gives another party your credentials so that they can:<\/p>\n

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  1. send this out as messages to your contacts<\/li>\n
  2. capture more information from your account<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you fell for the 2nd login issue, then my advice is to:<\/p>\n

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    1. Immediately change your password.<\/li>\n
    2. Kick off all sessions in the “Security and Login<\/a>” page. There is a “Log Out Of All Sessions” option.<\/li>\n
    3. Also in the security section, setup two-factor authentication.<\/li>\n
    4. Turn on getting alerts about unrecognized logins.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Of all the things I can report, I cannot report this?<\/h3>\n

      It seems like Facebook should be able to detect this virus or phishing by now. What I can see of the link goes to a Facebook server: si-chao.cstools.facebook.com\u00c2\u00a0 So, at least the link to virus\/phishing is on their servers enough that they could check for its presence.<\/p>\n

      The person who sent it me says the account was locked out for 24 hours for behaving suspiciously. The act of sending hundreds of messages in a few seconds alerted Facebook to automated behavior. So, these are accounts they could be checking for being compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Got a message from a coworker that suggested I was in a video. Naturally, I am supposed to click on it, but it felt wrong. A quick Duck Duck Go search revealed it to be a virus. If you think a virus was installed on your device, then my advice is to find a trusted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1198,74],"tags":[2387,3331,3047],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-facebook","tag-computer-virus","tag-cybersecurity","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2pq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}