The truth about the Facebook Profile Viewer is simple: it doesn't exist.
You can check every Facebook page or app available, but you can be 100% sure that each one that says “See who viewed your profile!” or “Who’s stalking you?” is just a ruse for Facebook users to reveal their passwords or spread spam. How do they do this? Clickjacking is a surefire way. In a typical clickjacking attack, cybercriminals hide malicious content under the guise of legitimate pages and ...
Facebook's enduring popularity means that cybercriminals find it a tempting lure for their malicious misdeeds. A newly-spotted phishing scam is no exception.
We came across a malware sample, which we detected as TSPY_MINOCDO.A. The goal is to redirect users who visit Facebook to a spoofed page, which claims to be a part of the social networking website's security check feature, even sporting the tagline “Security checks help keep Facebook trustworthy and free of spam”.
It does this by redirecting all traffic to facebook.com and www.facebook.com ...
We've spotted an uptick in a particular type of threat hitting Twitter uses in Japan. We call this threat the "browser crasher" after what it does: it causes the browser to "hang/crash". To do this, the user has to be lured to visit a particular site with the JavaScript code. So long as the browser tries to open that site, the user will be unable to browse websites normally.
How is this attack conducted? In this particular case, users were lured ...
Cybercriminals tend to leverage what’s popular and new. Case in point, the much-anticipated Google Project Glass is being used as a social engineering lure to trick unsuspecting users into scams.
We found that one of the top results for the search term “free Google glasses” is an eye-catching YouTube link with the title [{FREE}] Google Project Glass [[FREE GOOGLE GLASSES]:
Figure 1. Search results for 'free Google glasses'
The video was copied from the original Google Glass YouTube advertisement. The YouTube video also contains ...
For those concerned about their privacy, last week was an important one. January 28th was Data Privacy Day, with many organizations releasing transparency reports that highlighted how and with whom user information is being shared. For example, both Google and Twitter made public their transparency reports, highlighting how they responded to official requests for user information. These reports indicate which governments have been requesting data from these sites, how often these requests are made, and how often any data is ...
