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Yet Another Facebook Phishing Attack
Techtree News Staff, May 22, 2009 1731 hrs ISTGreets users and points them to URLs ending with .at
Recently, Facebook was victim of a phishing attack having enough potential to attack 200 million Facebook accounts. It's barely been a week since then and yet another phishing attack bothers Facebook.
The new attack sends sends an email message with subject "Hello" to the victim with body text asking to visit an obscure URL with .at domain name - areps.at , kirgo.at and so on. Do not visit those links. We repeat, DO NOT visit those links.
These phishing links ask the users to put in their Facebook Login credentials. Once the mistake of entering Facebook credentials is done, the attack changes the password and sends same phishing link to victim's contacts. This attack doesn't install malware and is presumed to be in stage of collecting user credentials for a larger damage in the future.
According to CNET, Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said, "The impact of this attack or the previous ones is not widespread and only impacted a tiny fraction of a percent of users. We've been updating our monitoring systems with information gleaned from the previous attacks so that each new attack is detected more quickly."
Users surfing on Firefox browsers won't be affected since those URLs have been blocked and tagged as 'Web Forgery' links. To stay secure, visit Facebook Security page and follow the solutions offered.
The new attack sends sends an email message with subject "Hello" to the victim with body text asking to visit an obscure URL with .at domain name - areps.at , kirgo.at and so on. Do not visit those links. We repeat, DO NOT visit those links.
These phishing links ask the users to put in their Facebook Login credentials. Once the mistake of entering Facebook credentials is done, the attack changes the password and sends same phishing link to victim's contacts. This attack doesn't install malware and is presumed to be in stage of collecting user credentials for a larger damage in the future.
According to CNET, Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said, "The impact of this attack or the previous ones is not widespread and only impacted a tiny fraction of a percent of users. We've been updating our monitoring systems with information gleaned from the previous attacks so that each new attack is detected more quickly."
Users surfing on Firefox browsers won't be affected since those URLs have been blocked and tagged as 'Web Forgery' links. To stay secure, visit Facebook Security page and follow the solutions offered.
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