Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Stop using Facebook

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• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The malicious domains will also try to accept only real PC users. If it detects an internet visit coming from a bot or an automated check from a security researcher, the domains will redirect the traffic to Google.com. “If you pass the checks, the site downloads a file named ms-update32.exe. At 75MB, it feels like a legitimate Windows installer,” Malwarebytes says.

  They are getting more sophisticated. So it’s a copy of licences and installer. Naturally, the only legitimate means to have that is windows update from the menù, but if you didn’t know…

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• MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So it install legitimate Windows 11 then?

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Get out of my head lmao

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  So, Windows AND another malware?

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• blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This reads like a Onion joke.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    'Cause it’s got layers!

    There’s at least four different reasons this nonsense wouldn’t affect me, LOL. (I don’t use Facebook, don’t want Windows 11, don’t see ads because they’re blocked, and can’t run Windows malware because Linux.)

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Windows? Facebook?

  lol

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• Schorsch@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  [This could be a joke about Windows 11 being malware in the first place]

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• krimson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re still on facebook you deserve a free windows 11 upgrade to be honest.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Or Instagram for that matter.

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or worse, with windows

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The oldest trick in the book

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perfect. Right in the center of the idiots’ Venn diagram.

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• ReCursing@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nicholas_Cage_Really.gif

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So… the advertiser is Microsoft, and the malware is Windows 11 Pro. Ohh I’m so surprised

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a silly malware vector though, because everyone still stuck on windows prefers W10 to W11

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  • thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The kind of people that fall for this probably has a good overlap with those sick of the “upgrade!!!” Windows Popups.

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• NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Windows to hell.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s terrible bait, surprised if it’s working.

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  • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I imagine a good number of people will fall for this. Tech illiteracy is the norm.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My Mac and I would like to see it try. Malware? It’s a Mac. (Mac malware exists, but this is probably/likely made for Windows.) Actual Windows? Not in this Christian server M2 Pro.

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