It’s Not Funny: Facebook Users Tricked into Bitcoin Mining

June 19, 2014

Hundreds of Facebook users got infected with a new Trojan secretly using their systems to mine for Bitcoins. The virus spreads through private Facebook messages, received from one of the victim’s trusted Facebook friends. It reads “hahaha” and contains an archive called IMAG00953.zip with what seems to be a legitimate .jpg image file. It is actually a malicious Java jar file, which is executed on the machine when the user opens it.