A latest possible threat has been alerted for Facebook users. Spammers are now attacking the 400 million users on Facebook, in an attempt to steal their passwords. A lot of people have been affected by this, as they would believe this email has been sent by Facebook, due to the previous security changes that it underwent.
Spammers are sending emails that look like they are from Facebook, stating that their Facebook password has been changed. They also give a link to verify their new password. As soon as the user clicks on that link, it installs an attachment on the users computer. This enables the spammer to steal all the passwords that are being used on that computer, not just the Facebook password. McAfee has already given this warning, due to the many users being affected.
The messages may appear something like the below message:
Users from all the major countries are being affected by this. So Facebook users beware of something like this before clicking on a link. Don’t open any spam mail from Facebook and install a good anti-virus.
Let us know, if anyone of you or someone you know has got affected by this, in your comments.
Heights of Phishing methods. Those funny people never have a phisher’s block like the bloggers do, do they?? lol..
Heard a lot about this latest scam and its good u spreading the words to all the people.. This will be helpful for many…
Thank you Harsh..
Twitter Phishing attack, now Facebook scam. Thanks for writing this article. Surely help lot of facebook users.
You are welcome Yogesh.
Yup Saw this on Mashable too…
why people fail to differentiate a fake notification and real?
Actually we posted this before Mashable
Only the awareness can defeat our genius hackers. Make sure that your login username to this site’s cpanal or other, is not admin@thisite.com or “admin” to avoid your site being hacked.
Think like hacker and win
This I think a month old news first break by TrendLab. Facebook member those uses gmail id on registration don’t need to worry much as Gmail automatically delete those message before they reach. I don’t know about other email services. Thanks for blogging about this security issue.
This might be a month old news but these kind of spam keep coming. This is the latest update on the latest scam.
Need to be careful now !!!thanks for giving the info
That’s really a bad news. So many problem in Social Media now-a-days!
Thanks for sharing Suhasini! !