In the eternal war between Facebook and cybercriminals who try to use the site as a perfect incubator for their viruses, Mark Zuckerberg's social network has recently achieved an important victory. Indeed, the FBI announced on Tuesday that it has arrested ten suspects as part of an investigation into an operation that infected more than 11 million computers with bank fraud software, generating losses, according to Bureau estimates, of $850 million.
Although many details on the operation, which involves suspects scattered in various parts of the world (from the USA to New Zealand, also passing through Peru), have not been released, the FBI thanked Facebook for its collaboration with a statement.
What is known is that the virus is a botnet butterfly that penetrates PCs through variants of the Yahos virus, which spreads through instant messaging services such as and on social networks, luring users into its trap with disguised messages: external links, which refer to an external site that installs the virus through the browser, "disguised", so to speak , from ordinary messages from friends who share a link.
Facebook's growing aggressiveness in fighting cybercriminals is well known in the industry. As security chief Joe Sullivan recently stated, the company's goal is not simply to keep users safe, but to fight with all might anyone who wants to put them at risk: “We don't want to play defense, but take a civil initiative". Cybercriminals are warned.
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