“1 of Friends Awaiting Your Response” Email

411-Spyware is talking about the “1 of Friends Awaiting Your Response” Email.

It is a typical facebook phishing email that reads:

From: Facebook
Subject: 1 of Friends Awaiting Your Response
Hi,
You haven’t been back to Facebook recently. You have received notifications while you were gone.
1 friend request
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
To login to Facebook, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?home.php&mid=36550aG611ed782G252454G2b

When you log into the fake Facebook page provided in the email, you are giving the scammers your user name and password. Recently there have been a surge of reports of Facebook “friends” asking someone for money because they have been robbed and are stuck in London. These types of emails are how the scammers get your login info, log into your Facebook account and then masquerade as you.

If you logged into Facebook using the link provided by the email, change your password immediately or contact Facebook at info@facebook.com if you are suddenly unable to log in as the scammers will have changed your password to prevent you from interfering with their scam.

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SECOND ROGUE FACEBOOK APP BEWILDERS USERS

Poisoned mushrooms and spam

Scoundrels have created another rogue Facebook application, the second to hit the social networking site in less than a week.

In the second attack, Facebook users receive notices that they have supposedly being reported for violation of the social networking site’s terms of service by someone in their friends list. A link on the notification leads to an application called “f a c e b o o k – - closing down!!!” which, post installation, spams all the affected user’s friends with the same message.

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ROGUE FACEBOOK APP CREATES MALIGN BUZZ

Sting in the tail

A Facebook application using misleading messages spread quickly over the weekend. The application itself did no harm beyond making a mess but may be part of an indirect attempt to attract surfers towards sites promoting scareware packages.

The application, Error Check System, posed as notification of errors in a Facebook user’s profile. Attempting to view these supposed errors allowed the application to activate. This, in turn, allowed the application to access to the affected user’s friends, who were then spammed with notifications, further spreading the social networking chain-letter.

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INVENTIVE FACEBOOK SCAMMERS TRICK YOU OUT OF MONEY WITH TROJANS

The following is an article from Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts

Do you take the same pains to protect your FaceBook details online, that you do your banking info?

A recent case involving a Microsoft employee from Seattle, Bryan Gutberg, highlighted the need to protect your FaceBook details in the same way, and be as wary surfing around FaceBook as you are the rest of the net.

This story was first reported by Bob Sullivan, respected cyber-scam reported for MSNBC. In the tale, hackers somehow gained access to Gutberg’s login and password – most likely through a keylogger, or a Trojan such as Zlob or Vundo.

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GRIFTERS PUNT ‘GET RICH QUICK’ SCAMS AT FACEBOOK USERS

Social networking marks made an offer you can refuse

Grifters are using Facebook to lend credibility to an elaborate get rich quick scam designed to trick punters into handing over credit card details.

The ruse begins with an ad on Facebook touting an offer to “get paid for posting links – Google will pay you great money for doing this”. Users who respond to the come-on by clicking on a link are taken to a page where someone who’s supposedly become rich through the scheme relates his story.

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TEEN ACCUSED OF ’SINISTER’ FACEBOOK SEX EXTORTION PLOT

31 victims fooled by bogus profile

An 18-year-old male student from Wisconsin has been accused of posing as a female on Facebook in a plot to trick at least 31 male classmates into sending nude pictures of themselves and then using the images to blackmail them into performing sex acts.

Anthony Stancl of New Berlin was charged Wednesday with five counts of child enticement, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, repeated sexual assault of the same child, and making a bomb threat. He faces a maximum sentence of 293 years in prison if convicted.

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Koobface Worm Spreads Through Facebook

Spyware Techie is reporting that the Koobface worm is spreading through Facebook in a fake flash update called flash_update.exe. I can confirm this as I removed Koobface from several machines at work, all of which regally visit Facebook.

Koobface is almost “Facebook” spelled backwards in a since. Lately, some links on Facebook friend’s pages were found to be malicious links to malware downloads through a hackers video page. The malware download comes from no other than the flash_update.exe file, something that we know first-hand about it spreading malware through social sites in the past.

Read Koobface Gone Wild: flash_update.exe Emerges On Facebook Links for more details

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Top Infection Spots

As it’s Thanksgiving in the US, it’s going to be a slow news day so I thought I’d give “thanks” to the most common places that clients of mine get infected with malware.

Facebook: Our big clients are guilty of this. I guess they must get bored at work and log into Facebook as they have nothing else to do. The problem is some of the Facebook plugins are malicious so they end up infecting their computers. This got so bad, we blocked all social networking sites for one of our big clients.

Fake Video Codecs: People just keep falling for this one. The main culprit is porn sites but our clients swear that they never visit them. Their internet history says different.

BitTorrent: It is mostly kids and teens that do this. While fake MP3’s are a big cause of infections, the biggest source is fake computer game cracks.

Fake Updates: A client visits a web site and is told that they need to download the latest version of Flash to view the site. They accept and you can guess what happens next.

Browser Hijackers. Yes, there are people who believe the fake security pop ups that appear onscreen when their browser has been hijacked. The client downloads the fake program and even worse, pay’s for it.

Those are the main ways people get infected with malicious software, at least where I live. Please learn from their mistakes.

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