Be More Careful on Facebook
By Luciana on February 9, 2010 | Computer Security, Facebook, clickjacking, malware, attacker
A social networking giant called Facebook is not untouchable anymore for attackers who want to get benefit of it. It is not very surprising, because Facebook is just another way of communication and it is also a new vogue at the world. This portal and, I dare to say, a database of people personal information, is a perfect land for attackers to spread a malware and take the precious information of those who put it there.
People are too reliable at believing and trusting in advertisements they are getting on Internet. The links with a fake information is another try of attackers to use your personal information and this time with your own knowledge. At this point, when you get a fraudulent link with some kind of information or a message you press it by your own will. This is a trick to spread the malware at your computer. As an example, Facebook-related scam recently was detected.
The message that is circulating today in Facebook looks like that (translated from Spanish):
Adriana sent you a message
Subject: your photo
“Hi, is this you in the photo? http://www.facebook.com/l/8daf9;descargar68898201xxxxxxxxxxxxx/id735rp/
Good luck!!!!!”
As a result, fraudulent message has an ability to create a fake reality which looks like as a real Facebook and even the URL is not that different. Moreover, when you click on the button which allows you to enter to other website you will get a new pop-up message. The file you are prompted to download installs Trojan.
At these cases you are strongly advised to delete similar messages with unknown and unreliable data in it. If you are wondering that this link can be really sent to you by your friend you can always confirm this by contacting your friend.
It may seem like paranoia can get you but it is needed to be cautious of what messages or links your are getting. You have to take in advantage that these messages can bring you a trouble. We cannot prevent malicious intentions but we can make sure our private information will stay in that way.
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