Facebook Phishing

Oleh Benn

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Sometimes spammers create fake pages that look like the Facebook login page. When you enter your email and password on one of these pages, the spammer records your information and keeps it. This is called phishing. The fake sites, like the one below Facebook has today announced a new way in which it hopes to combat phishing scams targeting its 955 million users. In a post to its Facebook Security page, the social network has explained that the public can now report Facebook-related phishing emails Discovered by Kaspersky Lab Expert David Jacoby, a complex facebook phishing scheme first obtains access to a user’s Facebook account through standard phishing methods. Once the scam artist gains access to any account, they change the user picture to Facebook has faced “a concerted phishing attack” aimed at its users, according to a spokesman, but the damage “is not widespread and is only impacting a small fraction of a percent of users.” The attack resembles recent malicious campaigns earlier Be on the lookout for a current spate of phishing tactics spreading on Facebook via the chat feature. The attack employs similar methods to those used by past scams, using hijacked user accounts to send chat messages with a generic message and a link to a even those who aren't on Facebook — can use it to report malicious emails that pretend to come from Facebook. Known as phishing, such emails attempt to get passwords and other information by pretending to come from a legitimate business. Because .

A Phishing attack by FBaction.net is underway on Facebook. Facebook says of the Fbaction.net phishing attack: We are aware of this phishing domain and have already begun to take action. Specifically, we have passed the domain on to Markmonitor who pushes Earlier today a link to a phishing trojan Facebook App, supposedly a video of myself, was sent to me from a twitter account belonging to a channel partner which had been compromised. The phishing app requested Facebook users to log in with their Twitter A facebook phishing scheme makes it appear as if users are getting a message in their inbox from company CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hoax Slayer identified the scheme, which involves users receiving a message from someone whose name is Mark Zurckerberg. .