Watchout , Facebook applications can steal login and Send Spam
Trend Micro reported Facebook application is able to steal login information and send spam to other victims. So far, there are 6 applications’ evil ‘that has been identified., That is, the “Stream”, “Posts”, “Your Photos”, “Birthday invitations”, “Inbox (1)”, and “Inbox (2)”. According to Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro researchers, all applications are still active in the circumstances except for the “Stream”.
Summary sixth application, according to Ferguson, this week started in with the notification of an application benama “sex sex sex and more sex !!!”, which has 287000 fans. Contains a notification that someone has been posting on it. Ferguson added that the application is not ‘evil’ and thus may be used to distribute spam.
The first form of notification and a hyperlink that leads to a phishing site in the domain “fucabook.com”, which teregister in the name of someone in Armenia. After the user provides login information, the user will be directed to the Facebook application and an installation called “Posts”. When installed, the application will send spam to your friends with user notification “Profile_name has sent you a message”, with additional hyperlinks to the same phishing sites. However, then a hyperlink is then directed to an IP address that simple, not to domain “fucabook.com” is.
According to Ferguson, all the applications off the same as other applications, including for treatment to the ad. Meanwhile, the Facebook has not commented further and promised to explore the core problem. Ferguson suggests to Internet users, to always check the URL in the address bar tertampil browser before entering critical information to the site and press the mouse to the hyperlink to view the URL. Facebook users also have to be me-reviwe privacy settings regularly and remove applications that are not used, he added.
