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New password-stealing virus targets Facebook (Reuters)

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Reuters – Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
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