Ack! Set your accounts to NO PORN, Facebook friends!
Facebook is being hacked by a bunch of jerkoffs trying to ruin our good times! I just want to play useless apps and take tests that tell me which Twilight star I'm most likely to marry!!!!
The hackers are pretty intense and are blasting the site with nasty ass images. Gawker (one of the first to report on the attack) had a user say this:
"They appear as updates on your news feed, but they're attributed to users who have nothing to do with their being posted.The pictures are REALLY graphic — a closeup of a woman fingering herself, an erect dick, etc. Facebook seems to be at a loss as to how to stop this from happening. It's kind of funny, but also scary when you're at work and your boss walks past your computer just as a giant cock appears on your screen."
True dat! I work from home so I can look at all the porn I want (I don't) but even so, I don't particularly want a huge cock showing up on my monitor either.
These attacks typically work by:
- Tempting the user to click on some fake feed item (often resembling a Facebook post, such as a post stating that a user joined a group).
- The attacking image/text contains a link that drops the user on a page that makes it look like they logged out. Often this can be a multi-stage process to dupe the user, e.g. display a fake group page that looks identical to a real Facebook group, which when users click the button to like/join redirects them to a login screen resembling Facebook's normal login prompt for users in such events.
- Once the attacker has your username/password, they use softbots to log into accounts.
- The softbots post feed links pointing to the attack page(s).
I'll defriend you so fast your Farmville cows'll be spinnin' for days!
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