facebook phishing
With this red flag I followed the link and was taken to an exact replica of the facebook login screen which might have fooled me had I not realized that I was already logged into facebook. [1]
We’ve had two separate reader reports of a Phishing Scam targeting Facebook users. [2]
I’m not sure what the bad guys want with a bunch of Facebook user account credentials, but phishing scams seem to be hitting the site. [3]
We recently came across a phishing attack targeting Facebook. [4]
Today I received a link to a “crazy and funny vid” on my facebook account from a friend whom I would never expect to contact me. [1]
Not on the page, like the giraffe the bank shows you when log into your savings account, but in the address bar, like the security validation color we get on some browsers. [2]
If you’ve been using the internet for the past couple years then you know that Nigeria is a keyword which means “spam” nine times out of ten. [...] Sydneysider Karina Wells also was able to determine that the individual she was talking to was not her friend but was instead a scammer, but many people are not so fortunate. [5]
To give you an example of an attack that has been going on for over six months, we’ve shown a recent Facebook phishing email that our Honeyjax system picked up this weekend. [6]
Phishers are apparently using hacked Facebook accounts to post links to a fake login page on other people’s “Wall posts”. [4]
The blog iAntiVirus has done a little snooping into the sources of these phishing sites and found that gambling, marijuana, and other scam sites are hosted at these dynamically changing locations. [...] Turns out my friend had sent links to 30 other people, meaning his account had definitely been compromised and was being used to phish for other people’s accounts. [1]
Most social networking accounts can only be viewed if the account holder explicitly accepts or requests another account to be added as a “friend”. [6]
For some users, Facebook’s photo tagging is a new fun for them when they want to share their photos with their friends, and showed that the one who tagged also a friend in their inner circles. [7]
One tipper claimed that many of his friends had been caught as well. [2]
Sources:
[1] Just a Nutter Blog :: Facebook Phishing Attacks Spreading Like Wildfire (nuttersmark.com/…
[2] Phishing Scam Targeting Facebook Users (www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/26/
[3] Phishing For Facebook (www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/02/
[4] Phish(Face)book! - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab (www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/
[5] Facebook Phishing, the New Scam (www.allfacebook.com/2008/11/
[6] Facebook Viral Social Networking Spam - Security Labs Blog (securitylabs.websense.com/content/
[7] Facebook Watcher (facebookwatcher.com)