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Browser Plug-in Steals Facebook Logins, Pumps Spam For GM Cars

ID: c2945233-42f6-541b-b8b5-6b237b782d47

STIX ID: report--c2945233-42f6-541b-b8b5-6b237b782d47

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2013-05-13

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

Author: Paul Roberts

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Microsoft warns that malicious Chrome and Firefox browser extensions observed mainly in Brazil bundle the Febipos.A trojan, which harvests Facebook credentials and remotely-controlledly automates spam (posting, liking, commenting and inviting) to promote links such as a GM Celta car page; the trojan fetches configuration and commands from a remote site and abuses browser plug-ins as the infection vector.

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