New Computer Virus Targets Social Network Users

Security software vendors say cyber criminals are increasingly focusing their attacks on the hundreds of millions of users of social networks and on loopholes in bank security systems.

Smaller research firm F-Secure says in its quarterly virus report that as Facebook reached 300 million accounts in September, social networks and social media continues to attract criminals.

The company says that, “As Twitter has grown in popularity, it has been increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking.”

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