A new Trojan horse called Troj/Dloadr-BPL are being spread in Facebook according to Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley. The Trojan horse is being concealed as a Google video link in a user’s Facebook Wall. Unsuspecting users can easily be deceived by this link since it appears as a legitimate video link. Once clicked, the user will be directed to another Trojan horse, Troj/Agent-HJX, which is an image of a court jester sticking out his toungue.

Quoting Cluley, "People have got to learn that clicking on links in messages can lead to a malware infection, whether the messages are in your email or on a site like Facebook. There has been a flurry of malicious email recently posing as links to videos -- so there's really no excuse not to know that this trick is being commonly used by hackers at the moment."

Text below is taken from Sophos website:

Troj/Dloadr-BPL

Aliases

* VirTool:Win32/DelfInject.gen!T

* TR/Crypt.CFI.Gen

Category

* Viruses and Spyware

Type

* Trojan

What to do

* If you've received an alert for a virus or spyware, then follow the instructions for removing the threat.

Affected OS: Windows

Security is among the top things that Facebook should consider especially now that Facebook is expanding worldwide and aiming to dominate the social-networking sites.

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