Social networking Web sites have become apopular pastime and are a means of staying in touch with friends formany people. Yesterday, Websensereported on a Trojan keylogger aimed at users of Habbo, a popularsocial networking site for teenagers. This is not the first timeteenagers and children have been targeted. One of the first instanceswas a worm called W32.Pokey that used the Pikachu character from Pokemon as a social engineering tactic.
In the Habbo case, users are duped into believing they are gettingtools that will give them the opportunity to make a name for themselvesin Habbo without having to fork out the costs. In fact what they aregetting is a malicious Trojan horse program that logs keystrokes on thecompromised computer and sends the logs to...
