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| » 24 May 2009 |
| The Most Harmful Facebook Spam Ever |
| According to several security companies and specialists, the infamous virtual mafia of Russian Internet hackers is probably responsible for the spread of a dangerous virus spam that's presently making its rounds on Facebook via hacked Facebook accounts. Many Facebook user names and passwords were stolen by cyber crooks in the past few months of this year and the last few months of last year through phishing scams and the like. Afterwards, the procured information was used to invade Facebook accounts and use them to send out dangerous spam. This new wave of hack attacks do not just ebb and flow. They're instead comparable the breaking of a large dam; the torrent of malware just keeps on pouring out and escalating after the initial breach until the whole network is inundated with harmful code and dangerous viruses. All it takes is just one little security crack, and it gets worse from there. This new modus operandi of using Facebook to spread malware over the social network demonstrates how far cyber crime has worsened in the last five years. Hacked user accounts have also been utilized to send e-mail with malicious content to its contacts, perpetuating the malware spread indefinitely. Some of the spam mails delivered by e-mail are just advertisements promoting male enhancement products and the like, while others contain far more insidious programs that search for system exploits, manipulates your data, ruins your machine, and propagates itself to other networks. Then there are the spam mails that redirect you to sites phishing for your personal data or containing malware. The spread of this spam mail started on May 7. Facebook ardently blocked some accounts where this issue began to hamper the proliferation of the security threat. As an additional security measure, the social network even reset passwords after deleting the spam of suspicious accounts. Several the websites that the spam redirects to are loaded with harmful code that is used to install malware on your computer. Incidentally, a Lithuanian server was used to host the security breaching pages linked to the hacking incidents. Security experts believe that the Russian hackers responsible for this mess are cyber criminals that are somehow connected to the Russian Business Network (RBN). They speculate that the RBN is an accessory to this current transgression in Internet crime. As of this writing, no figures on how many Facebook users were victimized by this spam threat have been released. |
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