The Electronic Crime Prosecution informs Internet users to prevent their computer from being infringed. malware.
The Greek Police's Electronic Crime Investigation Directorate informs Internet users about the release of a new virus, which was posted online on 10 / 5 / 2014, and is spread through various horror videos that Internet users are trying to "Open" and which infect the computer with malware.
In particular, once installed, this malicious software acquires the ability to perform various illegal actions, without the knowledge of the user, such as disabling system security settings and more specifically the firewall, so as to open backdoors (backdoors) for other contaminated preletterthe.
Επίσης, παρεμβαίνει στον φυλλομετρητή (browser) αλλά και στην απόδοση του ίδιου του υπολογιστή, αλλάζοντας την αρχική σελίδα και την προεπιλεγμένη μηχανή αναζήτησης (του φυλλομετρητή). Παράλληλα, αρχίζουν να εμφανίζονται ανεπιθύμητα διαφημίστηκα banners, σελίδες με συνδρομητικές services μηνυμάτων και κακόβουλα αρχεία για κατέβασμα. Τέλος υπάρχει η δυνατότητα υποκλοπής κωδικών και άλλων κακόβουλων ενεργειών (όπως αποστολή spam emails κ.λπ.)
It is noted that the facebook updates feed shows posts that look like "videos" with strange - shocking content, prompting users to click on the post to see the "video".
Malicious posts appear with various titles such as: Vin Diesel Has Died While Filming a Deadly Scene From Fast and Furious 7, You Won't Believe What This Pregnant Girl Does, [SCHOCK] Schlimmster Motorrad Unfall Der Welt (Σόκ ! Το χειρότερο ατύχημα με μοτοσικλέτα στο κόσμο), Girl Killed herself live On Cam Just After Dad Seen Her While Doing This on cam!, με πιο διαδεδομένους τους παρακάτω τίτλους :
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"Alleged footage of an" actual "ghost attack.
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"Video" showing Aswang, a mythical monster from the Philippines (a video featuring the Aswang that is described as a mythical shape-shifting was-dog / vampire / terrifying thing from the Philippines).
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"Video" with mermaids (a video of Mermaids claiming they are back!).
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“Βίντεο” με ένα μεγάλο, λευκό καρχαρία να επιτίθεται σε καπετάνιο shipυ (Video of a huge great white shark tearing apart a sea captain).
When a user clicks on these posts, he is usually asked to first post the post on his "wall" to unlock the "video" (by participating himself in the propagation of malicious posts). Then there is a message that he or she must download or upgrade the video player of the browser to be able to see the "video". If the user performs this action then the corresponding malicious file is installed as shown below in the photos.
