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2016 Facebook malware campaign resurfaces, India top victim

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New Delhi, Feb 8 : A 2016 Facebook malware campaign, known to use a combination of Windows trojan, browser injections, clever scripting and a bug in the social network’s platform, has resurfaced in India, targeting millions of users, a new report warned on Monday.
According to an investigation by cyber security firm Kaspersky, India ranks first with 603 infections in January on the list of infected countries by this particular malware.
Brazil (255 infections) and Indonesia (221) followed at second and third position.
The social media malware campaign, run by a hacker group known as SilentFade gang in 2016, was a very sophisticated and rare modus operandi to target Facebook users.
Facebook had revealed that the group managed to defraud infected users of more than $4 million, which they used to post malicious ads across the social network.
Kaspersky experts recently recorded Frank rootkit and after having it analysed, they found it has many similarities to the campaign run by the SilentFade gang.

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