New Spam Campaign Hit Facebook

As per the Websense security experts, a spam campaign has attacked users of one of the most reputed social networking sites - Facebook - consecutively for the third weekend of May 2010.

The new attack has come in the form of an e-mail carrying a link to the phishing page sent by infected users to all the friends in their contact list. The message says that "[name] it is undoubtedly doubt the most hilarious video ever. LOL!" whereas the link displays "Naughty Camera Prank! [HQ]."

On clicking the link, users are taken to a fake website which looks like the real login page of Facebook. When the form is submitted, the page takes the users back to an application page of the original Facebook website.

If this fake application runs, then spam messages will be forwarded to all the friends in the user's contact list. Further, it also enables a FLV (Flash Video) player update. In fact, the update is an installer for an adware application which will fill the user's system with several types of ads. Unfortunately, the security experts claim that this executable named "FLVPro.exe" is detected by just 14 out of 40 antivirus solutions on VirusTotal.

Because of the danger associated with the recent spam campaign, the security experts suggest that users should avoid such mails and remove the hilarious video from their Facebook wall. Moreover, users should not click on it even if they find it elsewhere on Facebook. The basic precautionary measure, which every user must follow, is that they should enter the Facebook login page only on Facebook.com.

Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, has suggested that if users have mistakenly clicked on the video link, then they should inform their friends immediately who might have got the same video. Further, users should regularly scan their system with updated antivirus software and also change their Facebook password, as per the reports by softpedia on May 29, 2010.

Lastly, the security experts state that the recent attack have come seven days after the "Distracting Beach Babes" video attack, which came one week after another Facebook attack known as "Sexiest Video Ever."

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» SPAMfighter News - 6/8/2010