Trojan.FakeAV.LVT– Plays You (Like) in Movies

[Jack]

What happens when screenplay writers, social engineers and software developers meet

A video on Facebook is used as vector of infection for a Trojan, the rogue AV component artfully mimics the antivirus you have installed on your system and the downloader adds the compromised PC to a network of infected systems that constantly exchange malware between them.

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[Dejan]

That's some advanced malware right there, I didn't know there was such a thing as a "copycat kit" for copying off the alerts produced by legitimate antivirus products, very elaborate and tricky, I better warn my mom about this since she browses Facebook a lot.

 

[Deleted member 178]

At least we can have some fun with those malwares, not so easy to detect, but an advanced user will be awared of it by the abnormal behavior of his computer.

 

[illumination]

Thank you for the heads up on this Jack, i have not heard of malware such as this till now. Would be interesting to come across while browsing, to say the least.

Although i am thinking if i did, i would have been safe enough, as i never use the "automated" update for flash. I always manually uninstall it, then go to preferred sites to install latest version.

 

[Dejan]

I asked my mom to tell me if she finds something similar to this, maybe she get's lucky and finds it.

 

[jamescv7]

Very tricky from the link that was being a Youtube page until the imitate antivirus alert that user convince to remove the alarming threat.